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Dislocation Quotes

On feeling out of place, in language and in life.

One quote looks back centuries to describe generational Being cut off from a parent's experience, while another finds the same distance in a poem's own words.

I think it is true that, post the global financial crisis initially - and for some period after that and particularly with how the mining investment boom and commodity prices played out - there was a dislocation that occurred in...

Quotes by Scott Morrison

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.

Quotes by Harry Mathews

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

Quotes by Felicity Jones

Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the...

Quotes by Dan Hill

Being Quotes

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

Quotes by Bob Mould

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

Quotes by Bayard Rustin

My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, but the disruption and the dislocation are painfully concentrated and we can't ignore them.

Quotes by Alexis Herman

If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will have had all your religious experience in English, the first to have a countryman circumnavigate the globe. All...

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Frequently Asked Questions

What historical example of dislocation appears in these quotes?
One references someone born in 1564 whose experience was profoundly cut off from their parents', since all their religious life was conducted in English for the first time.
How does one quote connect dislocation to poetry?
It describes good poems as having a dislocation between what the words appear to say and what they're actually communicating underneath.
Is dislocation only described as a negative feeling here?
Not entirely — it's treated more as an observation about distance and change than as pure hardship, closer to reflection than complaint.
Does an actor's lifestyle get connected to dislocation?
Yes, one speaker notes that constant travel as an actor brings a recurring sense of dislocation from home.
What does this collection suggest dislocation is really about?
A gap between expectation and reality, whether in generations, language or daily Being, more than any single cause.

An actor's ordinary sense of dislocation from home shows this isn't only historical — it's a Creative, everyday feeling too.