208 Quotes About Alienation

They're afraid of our ability to hear the stars. [...] And to them it makes us alien.

Our [western] culture cuts us off from our natural roots, instead of contributing toward the cultivation of the natural beings we are. This tradition has, in this way, rendered us extraneous to our environment, extraneous to one another as living beings, en even extraneous to ourselves.

I see individuals whose lives have been so protected that they seem like pearls nestled in velvet jewelry cases. I cannot empathize.

Die Entfremdung erscheint sowohl darin, daß mein Lebensmittel eines andern ist, daß das, was mein Wunsch, der unzugängliche Besitz eines andern ist, als daß jede Sache selbst ein andres als sie selbst, als daß meine Tätigkeit ein andres, als endlich – und das gilt auch für den Kapitalisten – daß überhaupt die unmenschliche Macht her[rscht].

Yorgundu; köşede koltuğa oturdu. Adam gülmüştü. İlle gerekli miydi başkaları?

In this apartment, as in his whole life now, he knew he would always feel as though he were staying in a hotel.

But vilifying those we love always alienates us from them to a certain extent. Idols should not be touched: the gilding comes off on the hands.

At the micro-sociological level, most humans are doing better than ever. Yet there is so much confusion, sufferingand bitter resentment. How many beautiful, privileged people have I not heard whisper to me, late at night, that ifit were up to them, they would never have been born; that they are angry with the world; that they were let down;that they live with guilt and self-doubt; that their friends and families are hypocrites? These are signs of thealienation suffered by modern human beings.

The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. It is I who am blocking the way, he thought. Was he not being looked at and pointed at; was he not weighted there, rooted to the pavement, for a purpose? But for what purpose?