Alienation Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image ““But he seemed alone, absolutely alone in the universe.”” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alienation Disconnection Hopelessness Meaning Physics Purpose
“He had reached the point where all he wanted on earth was to be alone.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.” — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“He was the universe to me, and all that was not him, was nothing to me.” — John Cleland Copy Share Image
“He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.” — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag 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 all the… — Arjum Hasan Copy Share Image
“If his long day were lived in a European novel, he'd become "D" when on the run or near disappeared.” — Alex Kudera Copy Share Image
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self,… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to think of ourselves as a great democratic body, linked by common ties of blood and language, united indissolubly by all… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not… — Judith Levine 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 'The Wall'… — Nick Mason Copy Share Image
“Most of her friends owned laptops and seemed to spend more time with their phones than anything else. Steffy kept her latest playlists and… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image