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Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation. — Attila Kotanyi

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy. — Albert Camus

If there is one thing I detest, it's when people transform their powerlessness or alienation into a creed. — Muriel Barbery

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. — Juan Goytisolo

Consciousness is a process of constant alienation. The mind, through reflection, confronting itself. — Alena Graedon

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him. — Bob Woodward

It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body. — Marilyn Wann

Did you ever notice how the words Attention and Alienation look the same when you are staring at them from a distance? — Alisia Compton

People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house. — Richard Greenberg

I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel. — Donna Lynn Hope

What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite. — Ivan Turgenev

To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard. — Zhuangzi

'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy. — Matt Groening

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation — Terence McKenna

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

Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self. — Sorin Cerin

That clean but lonely feeling when there are no other cars. The traffic lights changing just for you. — Don DeLillo

It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close. — James Rozoff

I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it. — Boyd Rice

Without alienation, there can be no politics. — Arthur Miller

Man's alienation from man must lead in time to man's alienation from God — Robert Nisbet

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes

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

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

Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives. — Susan Howatch

There was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him. — Thomas Hardy

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

I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38) — Frans De Waal

I want to be two people at once. One runs away. — Peter Heller

The void can only be filled with love. — Marty Rubin

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal. — Terry Southern

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

I miss my old life — Richard C. Morais

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do. — Judd Nelson

Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself. — Nikolai Berdyaev

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

Voice comes from a moment beyond the alienation of culture, it is heard before there is an "I" to listen to it. — Betsy Wing

His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life. — Irvine Welsh

It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it. — Steve Erickson

Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation. — Orlan

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid. — Lois Lowry

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. — Karl Marx

The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a condition of their emancipation. — Terry Eagleton

Sometimes its the crazy side that accomplishes things! — Christopher J. Fennell

Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude. — Marty Rubin

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self. — Maxwell Maltz

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

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest. — Carrie P. Meek

Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool. — Tim DeChristopher

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The high is what you crave, what you would kill for... and believe me, you will lie to yourself until it's to late to stop. — H. Alazhar

I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills ... Take control of your world. — Warren Ellis

[T]here is now a void at the heart of everything. But then there is so much more of everything now! — Phil Smith

All this sea of humanity reassured me that as alien as i felt, there were always others in the world far odder than I — Richard C. Morais

He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness. — B.W. Powe

I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.
- Ellen West — Carl R. Rogers

Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me. — Jeff Lindsay

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

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary. — Jenny Holzer

Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae. — Ricardo Semler

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place. — Marilyn Nelson

Everything intercepts us from ourselves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they're alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they're lonely. — Jason Daniel Chaplin

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. — Karl Marx

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us. — Barack Obama

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

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching. — Ivan Illich

Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences. — Mal Peet

Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane. — Daniel Klein

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past. — Philip Carr-Gomm

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself. — Will Cuppy

What is alienation? Thought. — Marty Rubin

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

Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us. — Sarah Black

Not knowing where your food comes from is a primary form of alienation. — Allen Lacy

I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation. — Alec Baldwin

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

I'm all groan up in America. — Brian Spellman

Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation. — Paula Gunn Allen

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights) — Robert Silverberg

A now notorious first fall into alienation, habituating people to abstract the world into printed words, — Susan Sontag

Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. — Jerry Mander

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation. — Mark Sheppard

When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are lonely for ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another? — Jean-Paul Sartre

When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules. — Charles Kennedy

As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree. — Albert Camus

Our call is to an engaged alienation, — Russell D. Moore

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. — Erich Fromm

The more media trailed him, the more space he tried to create. He cultivated alienation and used it as a whetstone to stay sharp. — Bonnie D. Ford

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots. — Kate Zambreno

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist. — Mike Birbiglia

Trees're always a relief, after people. — David Mitchell

A keener interest in trinkets of self-adornment than in people is a symptom of alienation. — Kobo Abe

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other. — Guy Debord

Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child. — Steve Maraboli

The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation — Che Guevara

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

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. — R.D. Laing