All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation…

Refuse to think in terms of this or that. All pain needs investigation. The mind is nothing else but the self. Assumption obscures reality…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the…

— Jonathan Franzen

Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible…

— Bell Hooks

“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…

— Norman Manea

I think it's much more radical to see and show things as they look instead of making them somehow subversive through alienation.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.

— Paula Gunn Allen

“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

“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