Top 263 Alienated Quotes & Sayings

Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.

The second you realize you're not alienated, that makes you empowered.

I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

I am a star because I have always felt so alienated and I project this feeling to others.

I was an incredibly lonely, very alienated teenager.

There is that small chance I’ll get what I want; to be someone to relate to for anyone who is as alienated, awkward, spastic and passionate as me.

I have this morbid fascination with being completely alienated from everybody, and a lot of the time I really do feel that way.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

So I, for one, didn't feel alienated by what happened in 77.

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries to have in their pancakes.

It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager.

When I was at my most outrageous and destructive, I alienated almost everybody.

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated.

With 'Greenberg,' I wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles... my great love for it and also the way that I felt not at home and alienated there.

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

Disbelief in the consequences of wrongdoing has coarsened our society and alienated us one from another.

Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.

Information is alienated experience.

Donald Trump is behaving in an extremely provocative way toward China, having first cancelled the TPP and alienated America's friends in the region. Same thing that he's authorizing much riskier gambits against ISIS, having alienated many of America's allies and friends in the region.

I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist" cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so - a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal.)

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore.

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

No matter who you are, you're gonna feel alienated by somebody.

When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin.

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you.

Although I hold a German passport, I feel very much alienated when I'm there.

How can you be alienated without first having been connected?

So when my critics say that Sassy is only for alienated teenagers, I feel like responding, 'Well, isn't an unalienated teenager the biggest oxymoron?'

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.

I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.

Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

I don't think any of my desires or beliefs or other mental states are external to me. Many people will occasionally feel alienated from the motives for an action - "whatever possessed me to do that?". Note, however, that some people feel alienated from the white hairs that recently appeared on their heads - "who put them there?", they might ask the mirror - but the white hairs are still theirs. Similarly, I might feel alienated from an action or a mental state because it does not fit with my visceral self - image.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. If one truly responds to man and his future, ie , concernedly and "responsibly." one can respond only by faith or by despair. Rational faith as well as rational despair are based on the most thorough, critical knowledge of all the factors that are relevant for the survival of man.

You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

The feeling I got from my research is that the victims of bombings end up becoming as alienated from the government as the terrorists who cause the attacks.

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

I never felt particularly alienated as an English person in America. It doesn't feel culturally like a massive gap to me.

We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.