Quotes About Alienation And Loneliness

#1. If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?

Byron Katie

#2. Alienation and loneliness became a cable that stretched hundreds of miles long, pulled to the breaking point by a gigantic winch. And through that taut line, day and night, he received indecipherable messages.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

B.W. Powe

#4. The void can only be filled with love.

Marty Rubin

#5. 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

#6. I hope this piece of work occupies your mind and impacts your outlook on life for years to come. I seek to inspire you to do great things. The power of the mind is extraordinary and you are capable of anything.

Kevin Laymon

#7. Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us.

Sarah Black

#8. I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable ... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

M. Ward

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

Virgil

#12. Ideology is a virus.

Neal Stephenson

#13. The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

Marya Mannes

#14. Loving-kindness challenges those states that tend to arise when we think of ourselves as isolated from everyone else - fear, a sense of deficiency, alienation, loneliness.

Sharon Salzberg

#15. You and I share the same DNA.
Is there anything more lonely than that?

Charlie Kaufman

#16. Globalisation Means the whole world, not just some of us.

Auliq Ice

#17. 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.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#18. Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

Maxwell Maltz

#19. Everybody on this planet shares a handful of universal emotional realities: ambition, shame, alienation, loneliness, achievement, regret, hardship, friendship, love, heartbreak. We've all experienced it. The facts change, the feelings are the same.

Mark Manson

#20. Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.

Daniel Klein

#21. Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.

Ernie Els

#22. I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable
but I always was so, only I never knew it!

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni