208 Quotes About Alienation

It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.

[...] the sense that everyone was incommunicado with everyone else and living on an entirely wrong plane, so that the meaning, the message, the love, or whatever it was that each life contained, never could find its expression.

If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.

Ayağa kalkarken koltuğa tutundu; yanlara, gerilere baktı. Kimi konuşan, gülen, kimi asık, kayıtsız yüzler. Hepsi de birbirine ve ona benziyordu bunların; kendileri bilmeseler de bir insanın yapabileceği her şeyi yapabilirlerdi.

I say this because there was a seriousness about her that seemed almost like a kind of anger. As though she might say, "I came here from whatever unspeakable distance and from whatever unimaginable otherness just to oblige your prayers. Now say something with a little meaning in it.

The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.

Nothing is more alienating than being somewhere full of people and realising, perhaps mid-conversation, that what they talk about belongs to a totally different plan of existence than the one in which you exist.

He felt himself falling into a state, very common when he was younger, of being totally cut off from the society he was in.

I'm not like other people, my life just doesn't work, it never has.