Alienation Quotes

133 quotes by 122 authors

In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an… — Eugene Ionesco
Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self. — Maxwell Maltz
Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers,… — Austin Grossman
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift… — Rachel Carson
There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Trees're always a relief, after people. — David Mitchell
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their… — Stephen Chbosky
Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost totalâ€¦ Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He… — Erich Fromm
Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the… — Albert Camus
He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Feminist education â€” the feminist classroom â€” is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment… — Bell Hooks
A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation. — Rebecca Solnit
If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was… — D. A. Carson
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism… — Jonathan Franzen
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A… — Nelson Algren
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's… — Stephen King
Some days,' I say, 'I feel like I don't belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. 'I point to Grant. 'People walk down… — Ann M. Martin
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel… — Michael Jackson
A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself. — Will Cuppy
but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of… — Philip K. Dick

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