It seemed to her the diabolical instrument of their…

All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“During the interval between her divorce and her remarriage she had learned what things cost, but not how to do without them; and money…

— Edith Wharton

“Time heals nothing. Wounds fester and ooze. Life drags you by a rope over rocks and stones and one day you look up, look…

— Bob Thurber

As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian attitudes towards the earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship between our respective…

— Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that…

— Sylvester Stallone

The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all times and…

— Harold Rosenberg

“Don't become a stranger for me, for in doing so, you'll make me a stranger to my own self.”

— Shahid Hussain Raja

“I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody…

— Nirad C. Chaudhuri

“Sometimes, in looking at me, her face froze into an expression of pity without a glimmer of compassion. I had often been characterized by…

— Peter Handke; Ralph Manheim [trans

In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make something radically…

— Elliott Colla

“How embarrassing. To suddenly understand how much of a burden you are to another person, how much someone else might wish to be free…

— Angela Flournoy

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement…

— Guy Debord

“She was a stranger because something essential was shielded, released in tiny bursts until it became a flood---a flood of what I realized I…

— Carmen Maria Machado

“Thoughts of estrangement and unforgiveness take no prisoners. They may come like thieves in the night, or devious daylight muggers, to waylay your thoughts,…

— Roger Macdonald Andrew

“The remarkable idea of a highly valued 'someone’ who has left still being a member of our personal ‘community’ in some sense is useful…

— Roger Macdonald Andrew