Alienation Quote by Christa Wolf

“The veneer of civilization is extremely thin.”

— Charles Cook M.D

“the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin”

— Karin Tansek

“How many times can a person shatter and have enough pieces left to be whole?”

— Denise Grover Swank

“You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes…

— Carrie Jones

“The world was a fragile place, full of cracks that didn’t always show. One misstep, and they might fissure, break. One wrong move, and…

— V.E. Schwab

“The veneer of civilization is like that on the kitchen counter - very thin.”

— Malcolm Watts

“Our civilization rests on a faulty premise, that the world is physical and mechanical, energy and matter only. We do not pay for it…

— Richard Grossinger

“But I know that the body I inhabit will only take so much, can only go so far. Rocks, stones, even the leaning twisting…

— Eva Figes

“Someone just broke pretty much all of human civilization overnight.” The”

— James S.A. Corey

“When you considered this world--people winched up and lowered down into the earth in steel cages and speed-fed through the tunnels, with doors cracking…

— Martin Amis

“When a crumbling house reaches a certain point, there’s no fixing it. You tear it down. You clear the rubble, and then you build…

— Amanda Bouchet

“None of us is less fragile than the other; we simply shatter in different places.”

— Sheldon James Martin