“But vilifying those we love always alienates us from them to a certain extent. Idols should not be touched: the gilding comes… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy. — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him. — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what… — Nick Mason Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My point is that the alienation of theory and practice, intellectual and manual labor, is a real issue, but it's the outcome… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
“[Our errors] represent a moment of alienation, both from ourselves and from a previously convincing vision of the world. But what's wrong… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“...it really struck me that, just as people might look at me and never imagine I'd worked as a prostitute, they must… — Sophie Hayes Copy Share Image
Most institutions of higher learning in the West were founded by and for religious denominations. The supposed alienation of education and faith… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
“So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“But in a society with no central motivation, so far adrift and puzzled with itself that its President feels called upon to… — Hunter S Thompson Copy Share Image
I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because… — Minnie Bruce Pratt Copy Share Image
“The separation of the individual from a corporeal relationship with the Soul is mirrored in the separation of the individual from nature.… — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
“Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“The Comedy of Errors has been consistently under-appreciated, I’d argue, in part because we don’t know how to appreciate plot. Contemporary culture,… — Emma Smith Copy Share Image
“Everywhere he went he saw this same phenomenon—parents unmindful of their children, their attention fixed on little glass windows in the palms… — Douglas Wynne Copy Share Image
“Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina… — Saidiya Hartman Copy Share Image
“A keener interest in trinkets of self-adornment than in people is a symptom of alienation.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
“The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business.” — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
Anytime you're telling a story about monsterhood, you're playing around with ideas about otherness and alienation. — Liv Hewson Copy Share Image
“Did you ever notice how the words Attention and Alienation look the same when you are staring at them from a distance?” — Alisia Compton Copy Share Image
Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human… — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
“For many people, the expression “disconnecting from the world” essentially means disconnecting from society—for this is the only world they know.” — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
“Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.” — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
“In the digital age, we may become self-important enough to be recognised, but never truly important enough to be known or valued.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Supermarkets were introduced into Britain to destroy small businesses and create a sense of social alienation” — Little Britain Copy Share Image
“You want to know what's wrong with the world?" Dad paused. "It's this alienation that permeates every aspect of humanity.” — Mark David Henderson Copy Share Image
Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae. — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
I was only listening to rock music, burning joss sticks in my bedroom, wanting only to be a disc jockey, and watching… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image