208 Quotes About Alienation

Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.

The sensation that had plagued me after graduating, of being on the outside of some mystery, peeking in, returned.

You want to know what's wrong with the world?" Dad paused. "It's this alienation that permeates every aspect of humanity.

They don't smile, they don't speak, they don't touch. Are they human?

To choose the wrong strategy is a serious matter. All the movements that only play on liberation, emancipation, on the resurrection of a subject of history, of the group, of the word based on “consciousness raising,” indeed a “raising of the unconscious” of subjects and of the masses, do not see that they are going in the direction of the system, whose imperative today is precisely the overproduction and regeneration of meaning and of speech.

She was of another world; different. But by then, secretly, so was I.

The absolutely alienated individual worships at the altar of an idol, and it makes little difference by what names this idol is known.

I grew up with David Bowie, the patron saint of the boy in his bedroom who felt alienated by the male culture of his peers.

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