208 Quotes About Alienation

He was disappointed in it all. He had developed into an alien. As the steam beer had tasted raw, so their companionship seemed raw to him. He was too far removed. Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself. He had travelled in the vast realm of intellect until he could no longer return home. On the other hand, he was human, and his gregarious need for companionship remained unsatisfied. He had found no new home.

Humanity has dehumanised itself and now sees itself in purely machine terms … from which terrible consequences are flowing. Humanity progressively sees itself in machinelike terms in the belief that this would solve all of our problems, but, in fact, it has simply made them worse.

The more you get used to the calm of the harbour, the more alien the waves and realities of the sea become for you!

You and I share the same DNA.Is there anything more lonely than that?

Never have I felt this cavernous loneliness, where everything's so close and accessible at fingers' touch through the computer keyboard or mobile screen yet impalpably cold and removed from the organic world. (Danny Castilllones Sillada, Homelessness of the Soul in the Digital World)

Nothing’s lonelier than living amidst the digital world, where no one knows about your physical existence, whether you’re still living or just existing for algorithmic feed on the social network or Big Data system. (Danny Castilllones Sillada, Homelessness of the Soul in the Digital World)

No one wanted him; he was outcast from life's feast.

I regard longings for twinship or emotional kinship as being reactive to emotional trauma, with its accompanying feelings of singularity, estrangement, and solitude.

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.