You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.
To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
I think that all writers feel alienated. . . . I know that I do. . . . I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.
Information is alienated experience.
If I do a picture, I want the audience to be the people I was just packed against on the subway or on the street, walking on Fourteenth Street. I don't want it to be some narrow public that I myself feel alienated from.
Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.
If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.
In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you.
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be found in the enlightenment of the spirit--some ability to have a perceptive rather than an exploitive relationship with his fellow creatures.
I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.
It is also a fact that people who are isolated and alienated in their neighborhoods as a result of the large number of neighbors who do not speak Norwegian, who do not follow the Norwegian customs, norms and way of life, could have psychosomatic disorders that can lead to both sickness leave and need for medical help.
I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.
I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.
For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?
How can you be alienated without first having been connected?
If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.
I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from the whole elemental exterior I'd come to see as my co-conspirator.
The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.
It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The crucial distinction lies in their structure, i. e. , the manner in which the pieces are assembled. Evil is disintegration, an angry juxtaposition of alienated opposites, with parts always striving to repress other parts. Good is the synthesis and reconciliation of these same pieces.
