“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
Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self. — Maxwell Maltz 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
“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
“The absolutely alienated individual worships at the altar of an idol, and it makes little difference by what names this idol is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“Everyone who lived in high-up, magical places must feel the same way. You come down into the world and you mingle, but… — Arjum Hasan Copy Share Image
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What's important to me is that there's a necessary alienation between me and the subject. I don't want to know them well.… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Religious communities have historically been designed to counteract the forces of alienation. That's why so many successful social movements have relied upon… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
“This is going to hurt, but you will have to watch other couples be happier, richer and louder than you. Wait. No… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
“I also knew Dell was a good boy with bad friends. I was one of them, and I worried about leading him… — H. Alazhar Copy Share Image
“If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Politically we feel alienated, rejected, and hopeless. The chasm between the people and their political representatives has widened to a terrifying degree.… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best,… — Questlove Copy Share Image
I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
What unites Trump's voters is a sense of alienation from America's wealthy and powerful. — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. — Jerry Mander Copy Share Image
The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body. — Marilyn Wann Copy Share Image
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that… — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
“I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38)” — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“But they made me realize more than I ever had the rarity of true originality, and also the sort of alienation it… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“Turning love into a commodity contributed greatly to the expansion of modern alienation ... It is the love of an actual person… — Rod Dubey Copy Share Image
“Big fucking mistake man. You can't be near her. Don't you get it? [...] She's part of this city. Do you see?… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil.… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
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