Alienation Quotes

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rot...

Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and fre...

Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. ...

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more...

In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital. His economic bonda...

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; th...

Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of v...

I'm not like themBut I can pretend

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

I realize then that the disappearance of a culture does not signify the disappearance of human value...

Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in ...

It is the disaster of our entire existence that we live thus away from our soul, and stand in such d...

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a ...

We aren't human.""Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-som...

You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be...

but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself ...

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...

It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing a...

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any o...

Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell...

Mrs. Arnold," the doctor said, coming around the desk, "we're not going to help things any this way....

Mrs. Arnold," the doctor said, coming around the desk, "we're not going to help things any this way....

Mrs. Arnold," the doctor said, coming around the desk, "we're not going to help things any this way....

Mrs. Arnold," the doctor said, coming around the desk, "we're not going to help things any this way....

The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost o...

No one at the factory can remember how long we’ve worked here, or how old we are, yet our pace and p...

Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlin...

I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills… Take co...

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the sourc...

At the top of the slope on the perimeter of the site, overlooking six lanes of motorway, is a diner ...

Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of hol...

As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.

I felt that the metal of my spirit, like a bar of iron that is softened and bent by a persistent fla...

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they become naughty. Therefore it is well not to ...

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact t...

If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or b...

So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew....

The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in...

It is also lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed ... If a person in physical pain has a hard tim...

Capitalists too, as the novelist Charles Dickens noted, liked to think of their workers as 'hands' o...

Trees're always a relief, after people.

The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society pr...

I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

We are accustomed to think of ourselves as a great democratic body, linked by common ties of blood a...

What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fa...

He was disappointed in it all. He had developed into an alien. As the steam beer had tasted raw, so ...

I knew I was lost inside the world, watching it and trying to understand why too often I felt like I...

The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does ...