114 quotes found
“Most of her friends owned laptops and seemed to spend more time with their phones than anything else. Steffy kept her latest playlists and apps updated frequently. She was a member of what Peter ca...”
“I look and I look...I must have come to the wrong planet.It's so strange here.”
“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”
“The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)”
“We are accustomed to think of ourselves as a great democratic body, linked by common ties of blood and language, united indissolubly by all the modes of communication which the ingenuity of man can...”
“The void can only be filled with love.”
“I'm not like themBut I can pretend”
“Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us.”
“Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude.”
“As soon as I decided I'd have to dig down still deeper to uncover the root of my listless withdrawal from life, I became aware of some interference from the past distracting and confusing my though...”
“He was a stranger here. The people who might remember him would certainly not welcome him. His old gang had cast him out, along with all of the former friends and parents. The suburban landscape of...”
“I miss my old life”
“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.”
“So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really wearied him. He talked to barmaids, to almost any woman, but there was that dark, stra...”
“I'm all groan up in America.”
“Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but that's no matter....”
“The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does not belong to the planet Earth.”
“All this sea of humanity reassured me that as alien as i felt, there were always others in the world far odder than I”
“Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it...”
“I felt that the metal of my spirit, like a bar of iron that is softened and bent by a persistent flame, was being gradually softened and bent by the troubles that oppressed it. In spite of myself, ...”
