Top 68 Estranged Quotes

#1. I've been estranged from my father since I was eight.

Anna Torv

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#2. The further we traveled in the darkness, the more I began to feel estranged from my body. I couldn't see it, and after a while, you start to think the body is nothing but a hypothetical construct.

Haruki Murakami

Estranged Quotes #80445
#3. U.S. has certainly been wanting this to happen since both Japan and Korea are longtime allies of the U.S. and this estranged relationship has prevented better cooperation.

Elise Hu

Estranged Quotes #150793
#4. Wages are a direct consequence of estranged labor, and estranged labor is the direct cause of private property.

Karl Marx

Estranged Quotes #163638
#5. Everyone is so estranged; no one is rooted. That's what I like to write about more than anything else. Everything being so mixed up. Racially mixed up, people moving from place to place, everything shifting.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Estranged Quotes #174056
#6. The longer one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.

Franz Kafka

Estranged Quotes #226152
#7. I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.

Quentin Tarantino

Estranged Quotes #238277
#8. Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

Goodman Ace

Estranged Quotes #333165
#9. The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

Emily Dickinson

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#10. Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving.

George Whitefield

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#11. I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.

Donna Lynn Hope

Estranged Quotes #367316
#12. Estranged from Beauty - none can be -
For Beauty is Infinity -
And power to be finite ceased
Before Identity was leased.

Emily Dickinson

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#13. Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

Estranged Quotes #420949
#14. The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many of the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is affixed

R.D. Laing

Estranged Quotes #452194
#15. My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Estranged Quotes #513025
#16. Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable world that may or may not lie beyond the proscenium arch.

Norman Lock

Estranged Quotes #517713
#17. Djinns were liars and manipulators, much like my estranged pseudo husband.

Hailey Edwards

Estranged Quotes #528327
#18. They loved each other's company, and would always choose it over either aloneness or the company of anyone else, but the more comfort they found together, the more life they shared, the more estranged they became from their inner lives. In

Jonathan Safran Foer

Estranged Quotes #545513
#19. Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection,
What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?

Sherman Alexie

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

Paul Auster

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#21. When it comes to parental alienation or grandparent alienation, we walk around with the overwhelming emptiness of a child's absence while carrying the heaviness of their sweet and irreplaceable memory ...

Donna Lynn Hope

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#22. In fact, the proposition that man's species nature is estranged from him means that one man is estranged from the other, as each of them is from man's essential nature.

Karl Marx

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#23. As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

Albert Einstein

Estranged Quotes #727805
#24. If your love is real, it will one day reunite you with your estranged lover despite any circumstances.

Anamika Mishra

Estranged Quotes #738161
#25. The advice I would give to my younger self is very, very simple: Stop burning the candle at both ends and renew your estranged relationship with sleep. You will be more productive, more effective, more creative, and more likely to enjoy your life.

Arianna Huffington

Estranged Quotes #753368
#26. Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common.

Miroslav Volf

Estranged Quotes #779879
#27. O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard,
Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Estranged Quotes #791358
#28. The best doctors found a middle position where they were neither overwhelmed by their feelings nor estranged from them. That was the most difficult position of all, and the precise balance - neither too detached nor too caring - was something few learned.

Michael Crichton

Estranged Quotes #806310
#29. Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't.

Carson McCullers

Estranged Quotes #854192
#30. Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.

Brennan Manning

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#31. Yet he was tense, feeling that he and the elderly, estranged woman were conferring together like traitors, like enemies within the camp of the other people.

D.H. Lawrence

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#32. I am an estranged man, said the liar: estranged from myself, from my family, my fellow man, my country, my world, my time, and my culture. I am not estranged from God, although I am a disbeliever in everything about God excepting God indefinable, inside all and careless of all.

William, Saroyan

Estranged Quotes #899292
#33. Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

Jessa Crispin

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#34. It is a mistake to believe other person to be estranged. They all are our own Self's-forms. However, that has to be realized, right? To believe the other person to be an alien means giving him a beating and that hurts our own-Self.

Dada Bhagwan

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#35. Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life.

Maureen Corrigan

Estranged Quotes #983741
#36. Stranger than strangers
are lovers estranged.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Estranged Quotes #1024706
#37. I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.

Jesse Metcalfe

Estranged Quotes #1032999
#38. Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Eugene Ionesco

Estranged Quotes #1071370
#39. I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate ...

Stanislaw Ulam

Estranged Quotes #1091479
#40. We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

Charles Dickens

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#41. The estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists.

Kazuo Chiba

Estranged Quotes #1132705
#42. The Olympic movement simply cannot allow the Russians to become estranged, because Russia is a vital part of the world sports community, in the sense of having nuclear missiles.

Dave Barry

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#43. There was no etiquette guide in the universe that told you how to handle waking up in a house you'd fled from as a teenager with your estranged sister in one room accross the hall and your husband's pregnant teenage mistress in the other.

Tiffany Baker

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#44. There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.

Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling And Bulwer

Estranged Quotes #1195683
#45. Well, it's kind of like that classic sort of trajectory in this kind of movie where there's conflict and they're estranged and they kind of grow to love each other but they don't show it. Then at the end - it's kind of like that. But I think the characters are more interesting than that.

Mary-Louise Parker

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#46. Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.

Mike Young

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#47. One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and understand my past passivity, came when a girl I loved very much, who I had been estranged from for some time, killed herself.

Kate Zambreno

Estranged Quotes #1254405
#48. When Vern had described Meme users so estranged from everyday language that they didn't know what words they didn't know, I

Alena Graedon

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#49. If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries to have in their pancakes.

Rick Moody

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#50. God is never in the wrong when He and one of His children are separated; yet He devises ways so that the banished person may not remain estranged from Him. Never underestimate the significance of timing when it comes to mending. You may not get another chance.

Beth Moore

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

LaToya Jackson

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#52. There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back.

Winston Churchill

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#53. Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged family members feel when they hear only indirectly, through a third-party posting, news of a child or parent with whom they have not spoken in years.

Eugene Kennedy

Estranged Quotes #1361787
#54. For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.

Nicole Krauss

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#55. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Anonymous

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#56. Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.

Leon Edel

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#57. I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

Leo Buscaglia

Estranged Quotes #1507209
#58. For beloved cross every pass
Worldly affairs slow their pace
A flowing brook amidst the grass
Flowing tears his face shall trace
His ego is shattered glass Self-estranged, himself deface
Sense the Divine in spirit and mass
If he is truly seeking grace

Rumi

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#59. In our time, in particular, many people are not only estranged from some of them but are denied the chance to encounter them.

Yuval Levin

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#60. A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Beatrix Campbell

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#61. Matt was deeply touched that his estranged son would come to him for advice. He wasn't going to let it show, of course. A man had his pride.

Diana Palmer

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#62. In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,
it is so much the more sensitive.

Henry David Thoreau

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#63. When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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#64. We are the estranged orphans of our nations and tribes, and we now bear the weight not of survival of the group but of personal identity.

Chris Matakas

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#65. I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

Uzo Aduba

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#66. Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from what he essentially is. His existence in a transitory world contradicts his essential participation in the eternal world of ideas .

Paul Tillich

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#67. Ah, Lalage! while life is ours,
Hoard not thy beauty rose and white,
But pluck the pretty fleeing flowers
That deck our little path of light:
For all too soon we twain shall tread
The bitter pastures of the dead:
Estranged, sad spectres of the night.

Ernest Dowson

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#68. I understand how families become estranged, not by design, but by embarrassment. You come to a point when so much time has passed that it seems impossible to make the first move

Michelle Richmond

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