Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Myth Fantasy Unity Alienation Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

Dustin Hoffman

Abstraction Alienation Materialism Contrast Fulfillment Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Alienation Society Belonging 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

Prison Alienation There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Eugene Ionesco

Isolation Disconnection Alienation I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

Bob Dylan

Death Disregard Alienation Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Kahlil Gibran

Discrimination Culture Shock Alienation I was born near Bucharest, but my parents came to France a year later. We moved back to Romania when I was thirteen, and my world was shattered. I hated Bucharest, its society, and its mores - its anti-Semitism for example.

Eugene Ionesco