Quotes About Alienation From Society

#1. You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.

Nelson Algren

#2. I think that idea of alienation, for whatever reason, is still very prevalent within our society and a lot of people deal with it - most people deal with it at some point in their life unless they're sort of the golden child. I think that's something that we all need to address.

Michael Fassbender

#3. I don't believe in having body doubles for a film.

Nicole Kidman

#4. Shame, which is the reluctance to be who we're not even sure we are, could end up being the deepest thing about us, deeper even than who we are, as though beyond identity were buried reefs and sunken cities teeming with creatures as we couldn't begin to name because they came long before us.

Andre Aciman

#5. To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.

Zhuangzi

#6. That's why there is such alienation, depression, and despair in our society - because the means we're employing doesn't lead to the ends we desire, no matter how hard we work, nor how much "stuff" we accumulate.

Tim DeChristopher

#7. The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

Terence McKenna

#8. When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.

James Garner

#9. Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation ... about where you fit in society.

David Bowie

#10. Ben learned an important lesson: sometimes to survive you need to face your fear and overcome it.

Gregg Lewis

#11. He's not god! He's just the asshole who fucks with us.

Satoshi Kon

#12. Animals, Mark, have no use for nostalgia, Aunt Kenna says. It is not a tool for survival, my darling. But

Ali Smith

#13. In fact, no form of death places a greater burden on society than suicide, for the act of suicide is the way a person seeks to resolve his alienation from a cooperative society.

Shinmon Aoki

#14. 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

#15. It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by the laws which regulate its transmission and alienation, as to interest the great majority of society in the protection of the government.

Daniel Webster

#16. We fear that we are ugly, that we cannot succeed and we are afraid of something

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#18. My father, Tommy, who was a trained draughtsman, played for Preston North End in the Finney era. He liked football but did not love it as I do.

Mark Lawrenson

#19. The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it
while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation
takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.

Norman Manea

#20. This, precious. This is for real.

Laurelin Paige

#21. This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.

Guy Debord

#22. Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.

Damon Galgut

#23. The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

Karl Marx

#24. The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.

George Bernard Shaw

#25. Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

John Noble

#26. The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

Michael Cox

#27. There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Roland Barthes