Quotes About Estrangement

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father's estate

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since.

A culture focused on individual freedom can only result in narcissism, polarization, conflict, estrangement, and loneliness. What is the meaning of life when it's all about me?

We were reconciled, of course we were; things were now too far gone between us to be broken for a Roger Rowly.

Can't say I miss my husband, though. He turned into a real asshole about this and kicked me out of my house and then filed for divorce. Just because I nailed his brother, and the minister.

Quizá eso nos haya unido. Tal vez unido no sea la palabra más apropiada. Me refiero al odio implacable que cada uno de nosotros siente por su propio rostro. 

En los primeros tiempos el exilio era, entre otras cosas, el duro hueso de vivir distante. Ahora es también el de morirse lejos.

Mourning has no timetable. Grief is not the same for everyone. And it does not necessarily go away. The healthiest way to deal with it is to lean into it, rather than try to keep it at bay. In the attempt to fit in, to be normal, we end up feeling estranged.

I have always tended to look to the special circumstances of my childhood whenever I felt unhappy or lacking in confidence, and yet it is not reasonable to attribute a degree of estrangement that is part of the general human condition to a particular idiosyncratic experience.

There is no love lost between us.

Steve Durkee had left not on friendly terms, which is not unusual in the Paisley world.

Nonetheless, America has left you feeling like an unwanted cat or dog tossed out of the family SUV at a distant highway rest stop.

I feel myself dead – no; I feel myself, living, infinitely more dead than dead.

Svijet mi je odjednom postao tajna, i ja svijetu, stalni smo jedan prema drugome, za?u?eno se gledamo, ne raspoznajemo se, ne razumijemo se više.

But she couldn't. They never talked about when Marie moved out, or why. It had been a strained time for all of them and there was no need to stir it all up again. That's what was so enraging about it all, about that contractor bringing it up. About Marie having told him things.

If there was a family in the world to which I did not belong, it was my own.

Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence.

THIS will show her true colors! Thus, not even a call. But that's par for the course with Dina! She didn't even send a card or visit when he was sick."OK! Magazine: Lindsay's Grandfather Dies (August 28, 2008)1

We are not strangers. It's a lack of trust that keeps us separated.

In this apartment, as in his whole life now, he knew he would always feel as though he were staying in a hotel.