Alienated Quotes

120 quotes by 106 authors

What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause… — Theodor Adorno
I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated. — Nicole Krauss
The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys. — Dave Beard
One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it.… — Tino Sehgal
Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as… — Erich Fromm
The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In… — Eric Hoffer
To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a… — Eric Hoffer
It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always… — H P Lovecraft
You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates. — Frederick Lenz
I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent… — Ann Druyan
Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're… — Jesse Eisenberg
I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated… — Mark Haddon
Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the… — Stephen Harper
Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like… — Evo Morales
I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do. — John Podhoretz
The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives… — Delmore Schwartz
I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the… — Cat Stevens
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from… — William Irwin Thompson
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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