Quotes About Estrangement

There's something wrong with regular people. They're far from being the best creatures in the world.

the achievement of human autonomy has been paid for by the experience of human alienation.

It is true I was too serious. But perhaps the other children, and even the teachers, were not serious enough. The spider's silk lines of chance that can break and wash out from beneath you one or more of your cornerstones, toppling you into heartache and confusion, estrangement. Perhaps I was too aware of the tenuousness (and hence the beauty) of one's foundations, but I often thought others around me were not enough aware.

days of spiritual dryness, doubt, and estrangement from God as "the dark night of the soul.

Neither of them wanted to be close to their father in life, so why would they want to be close to him in death?

Edna looked straight before her with a self-absorbed expression upon her face. She felt no interest in anything about her. The street, the children, the fruit vender, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic.

She felt no interest in anything about her. The street, the children, the fruit vender, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic.

My older brother never came to visit me. He did write me letters, though: distant and condescending ones, because those were the shallow pools in which his small mind swam.

Abruptly, she said, I wonder what she did to so alienate our father that he disinherited her. Do you know? Supposedly… she ran off with Glen Sabella. He was a mechanic, and he was married. Gossip had it that your father was furious, especially since— Since both his wife and his other daughter had also run off without a word.

I kneeled without ecstasy, prayed without belief, and felt as a stranger.

who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you—of how you were brought into this world and why—and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs. The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange.

Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.

Eating the bitter bread of banishment.

I couldn't believe a mother and her daughter could have so much to say to each other. In my family, no one talked. In my family, people lived like insects, like worms, like slugs hanging on the back door of the house.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

For a while I saw myself as an outcast from an America that had always been mine.

Through his perambulations, he had lost the thread of connection with his family, and by the time I had met him, some three years previous to these events, there was almost no communication between Stoker and his three brothers, their father having died the year before I came into his life.

Todo me resultaba extrañamente conocido y ajeno, o íntimo y reprobable

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.

It seemed that the closer the girls got to Mrs. Tifton, the louder Skye squished, like a monster jellyfish with feet.

Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.

I don't reside on your planet. I have never lived.