208 Quotes About Alienation

I look and I look...I must have come to the wrong planet.It's so strange here.

I had started out in life trusting everyone and now I trusted no one. So I had a few acquaintances and no close friends. It was perhaps in reaction against the inevitable loneliness of my life that I'd find myself doing bold, risky, even outrageous things without hesitation or surprise. I was usually disappointed in these adventures and they didn't have much effect on me, good or bad, but I never quite lost the hope of something better or different.

The void can only be filled with love.

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

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

The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii)

This is a simple study. Yet, you can use this book to see deeper into the personality of God. I find it heartwarming that God was like a concerned parent who continuously moved the dialogue forward. Notice that Jonah was like a rebellious and headstrong son committing an idolatry of law over justice. (page v)

A common media trope imagines connectivity devices functioning as mere “alienating screens.” In fact, especially in protests, they act as “inte- grating screens” because many people use their devices to connect with other people, not hide from them.

Life today has become a series of spectacles to be viewed, not actions to be lived.