Quotes About Estrangement

And we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but not quite. Someone you wish with all your heart were there but who is actually just a stranger. And you feel a kind of deep longing that hurts like a huge gash and your inability to fix it leaves you frustrated and angry and bone-deep lonely.

En de uitgestotene? Spannen ze met hem samen?' 'Nee,' mompelde het meisje. 'Maar ze zijn wel met hem verbonden. Hij door het bot, zij door het hart.

There is no love lost between us.

Aquel hombre no podía ser de su mujer, porque no era de sí mismo, dueño de sí, sino a la vez un enajenado y un poseído.

The source of life (female) is redefined and now hated as the enemy of male life. What was once woman's power is now to be woman's curse, woman's shame. Woman's estrangement from God. In the Bible we can see the original Orwellian Newspeak occurring, in which false male imitations of menstruation and childbirth (the circumcised foreskin, the wounds of Christ) are made sacred and holy, while the real thing done

And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled?

There are things in nature which engender an awful quiet in the heart of man; Devils Tower is one of them. Man must account for it. He must never fail to explain such a thing to himself, or else he is estranged forever from the universe.

Parce que très certainement nous avons toujours connu ce sentiment auquel nous avons donné le nom d'exil. Le sentiment d'être dedans/dehors, d'appartenir sans appartenir.

We did not go out of each other's lives in a blaze of anger. We simply fell out of the habit of speaking. We lost our common language and so lost everything. There was nothing for us to say.

She loathed Christmas, and she loathed the run-up to Christmas, the frenzied shoppers, the tat in the shops, the lights that were put up too early in the streets, the Christmas songs that belted out from overheated shops day after day, the catalogues that poured through her door and into her bin, and above all the insistence on the value of family. Frieda did not value her family and they did not value Frieda. A great gulf lay between them, impassable. The

rootless affliction.

The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.

Bugün annem dayanamad?; ne yazd???m? sordu .Ona nas?l anlatsam? Bütün hayat?m? birlikte geçirdi?im ve beni gerçekten seven bu insana hiç bi ?ey anlatamamak ne kötü. Ondan farkl? geli?meye ne zaman ba?lad?m? Bu ayr?l?k ne zaman do?du? Hiç anlam?yorum. Bir gün bir bakt?m, iki yabanc? olarak ya??yoruz ayn? evde.

Ba?ka türlü hissetseydim ölmü?tüm ?imdi. Ayr?ca, kaç kere tavan aras?na ç?kmay? içimden geçirdim. Hele kendini öldürdü?ünü duysayd?m, muhakkak ç?kard?m. Darg?n oldu?umuza filan bakmazd?m.

No less than myself, though in a different way, he was entirely removed from the activities of the human beings of the world. We were of one species if only in that we were both disoriented.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. Anne Morrow Lindberg

We live at the mercy of certain silences. We have all known things about each other for a long time. So we try to avoid each other. It would be for the best, of course, if none of us were ever to see each other again.

Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.

He was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.

Until now he had thought that it was the world in general that he wanted to squirm away from. But it was not the world, it was the people in it. You could live, so it seemed, in this world, in this world devoid of humanity.

To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.

We are all aliens to ourselves.

a story about two friends who stop being friends because of a dispute in which both of their arguments are wrong

sin is separation.