Estranged Quotes

40 Estranged quotes by 33 unique authors

Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon… — William Butler Yeats
... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists. — Unknown Author
Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an out of control… — J P Donleavy
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… — George Whitefield
What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from… — R. D. Laing
As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here. — Albert Einstein
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
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… — Leon Edel
I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise. — LaToya Jackson
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
Politics makes estranged bedfellows. — Goodman Ace
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… — Beatrix Campbell
I've been estranged from my father since I was eight. — Anna Torv
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… — Dave Barry
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… — Elizabeth von Arnim
The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not… — Maximus the Confessor
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… — R. D. Laing
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are... That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity... because, if it's… — Steven Pressfield
Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full… — Jeffrey Kluger
Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night.… — Federico Garcia Lorca
To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body. — Paul Auster
Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of just… — Paul Celan
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… — Brennan Manning
Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection? — Sherman Alexie
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure.… — Wendell Berry

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