Quotes About Estrangement

Sometimes it's heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they've become. Maybe that's why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod.

And when they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends and brethren, and a little after draw out swords.

away from Clive.

It occurred to him that Blakiston was an outcast. He was in exile from himself.

Blakiston was an outcast. He was in exile from himself

If you want to punish somebody, never talking to them again is a really good method.

And underneath, Robin Wilson is a deranged freak! Why she doesn't like any of us after all we did for her, I'll never know. But it's the mark of a sick person.

When she's not talking to him the house is heavy and cold and we know we're not supposed to talk to him either for fear she'll give us the bitter look. We know Dad has done the bad thing and we know you can make anyone suffer by not talking to him. Even little Michael knows that when Dad does the bad thing you don't talk to him from Friday to Monday and when he tries to lift you to his lap you run to Mam.

I am fond of lovers but I cannot love, I am too far away, am banished

The longer one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.

answer. How else is he going to understand what is obvious to us, that Herr Klamm never will speak to him – what am I saying, never

since I was truly a disinherited son, I naturally enough became unsure about what was nearest to me – my own body.

Lei non è del Castello, lei non è del paese, lei non è nulla. Eppure anche lei è qualcosa, sventuratamente, è un forestiero, uno che è sempre di troppo e sempre fra i piedi, uno che vi procura un mucchio di grattacapi..

I saw then my father for the first time, as I had never seen him before, externalized in his own life, but not as he had been to himself, not as he had felt himself to be, which was something I could never know; but rather, as a being that was wholly strange to me, in that reality which, as I now be held him, I might suppose that others had imposed upon him.

Familles, je vous hais! foyers clos; portes refermées; possessions jalouses du bonheur.

others, even sharp comments and hasty judgments that are often excused as being honest and straightforward, are thwarting the effect of the influence of the Holy Spirit on others. Manifestations of temper and touchiness and irritation, feelings of bitterness and estrangement, have their root in nothing but pride. Pride creeps in almost everywhere, and the assemblies of the saints are not exceptions.

Let us consider how our lack of love, indifference to the needs and feelings of others, even sharp comments and hasty judgments that are often excused as being honest and straightforward, are thwarting the effect of the influence of the Holy Spirit on others. Manifestations of temper and touchiness and irritation, feelings of bitterness and estrangement, have their root in nothing but pride. Pride

Manifestations of temper and touchiness and irritation, feelings of bitterness and estrangement, have their root in nothing but pride.

Let him consider how all lack of love; all disregard for the needs, feelings, and weakness of others; all sharp and hasty judgments and words, so often excused under the plea of being outright and honest; all manifestations of temper, touchiness, and irritation; all feelings of bitterness and estrangement, have their root in nothing but pride, that only seeks itself.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left." ? Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife

ABANNITION  (ABANNI'TION)   n.s.[Lat. abannitio.] A banishment for one or two years, among the ancients, for manslaughter.Dict.

Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone.