208 Quotes About Alienation

She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

If his long day were lived in a European novel, he'd become "D" when on the run or near disappeared.

I feel myself alien from everyone; that is my kind of Jewishness.

Verily, the weight of half of disbelief in the world is carried by religious people who made God detestable to His servants.

When it comes to parental alienation or grandparent alienation, we walk around with the overwhelming emptiness of a child's absence while carrying the heaviness of their sweet and irreplaceable memory...

We will remain lost, wandering souls until we can look each other in the eye and smile

One Way to think of the market ideology and the empire is that it produces alienation and loss of human vitality. The culture flows from the assumption that the accumulation of commodities will make us safe and happy.

No eunuch flatters his tyrant more shamefully or seeks by more infamous means to stimulate his jaded appetite, in order to gain some favor, than does the eunuch of industry, the entrepreneur, in order to acquire a few silver coins or to charm the gold from the purse of his dearly beloved neighbor.

With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.