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Quotes About Estrangement

I dont like animals. Its a strange thing, I dont like men and I dont like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
~ Samuel Beckett
How exactly are you supposed to force your way into someone's life? Like I said, I have nothing she wants anymore. Not even, or especially not, my love.
~ Sarah Bird
It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.
~ Alice Munro
Chouka era muy divertida. Por desgracia, cuando dos años más tarde se casó, su esposo le prohibió verme. Para él, yo era una persona amoral
~ Marjane Satrapi
It's one thing when you lose a friend or when your friends become enemies, but it's the worst when friends become strangers,
~ Hayley Williams
Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to say that there are no more everyday pleasures, without which we would loose our humanness. But as our plight deepens, we glimpse how much must be erased for our redemption.
~ John Zerzan
To sum it up, your father is morally corrupt and worthless. ..If you'd like an elaborated version: He is a rotter who wishes to be king, I also think he's annoyed by the fact that he's turned out to be a member of the human race and thereby vulnerable to death. Lady Joan Wilde
~ Eloisa James
Personal imi dau demisia din omenire.
~ Emil Cioran
Cu rare exceptii "cartile" mele n-au trecere decat la ratati,la decazuti,la dezmosteniti ai soartei (in special femei),la adolescenti,pe scurt la ceea ce este inform si neispravit.
~ Emil Cioran
Nul ne peut veiller sur sa solitude s'il ne sait se rendre odieux.
~ Emil Cioran
Reprosurile,furiile, amaraciuniile mele provin, toate, dintr-o nemultumire de mine insumi pe care nimeni nu va putea vreodata s-o simta cu aceeasi intensitate.Sila de mine insumi, sila de lume.
~ Emil Cioran
Quizá ciertas personas no tengan ya nada que ganar ni que hacer junto a aquellas con las cuales viven habitualmente tras haberles mostrado el vacío de su alma, por lo que se siente severamente juzgadas por ellas con severidad merecida.
~ Balzac Honore De
I shall not be disappointed to leave all you bastards behind.
~ banks iain m ii
It was hard to imagine feeling more out of place than she did at that moment.
~ Barbara Davis
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.
~ Juan Goytisolo
Kobayashi won't talk to me. He hates me.
~ Joey Chestnut
My parents got divorced in the mid-70s and I didn't really have much to do with my dad after that. Or indeed much to do with him before that, to be honest.
~ Caroline Quentin
It was hard to understand how you could know someone all your life, think that you knew everything about them, then one Sunday they'd be standing in the kitchen of the flat that you both owned and seem like a total stranger
~ Sarra Manning
You listen to me. You try to tell her that she failed that man... And you're not welcome here anymore.
~ Scott Peterson
Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.
~ Jean Webster
I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.
~ Lisa Kleypas
The thoughtless habit of using the words "existence" and "exist" as designations for being is one more indication of our estrangement both from being and from a radical, forceful, and definite exegesis of being.
~ Martin Heidegger
which had cast him out. It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
With you, thought Rubashov and looked at the whitewashed wall behind which the other stood—in the meantime he had probably lit a cigarette and was blowing the smoke against the wall — with you I have no accounts to settle. To you I owe no fare. Between you and us there is no common currency and no common language. ... Well, what do you want now?
~ Arthur Koestler