Estranged Quotes

40 quotes by 33 authors

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 wayâ€”the way of artâ€”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
The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think,… — Karl Marx
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:… — Eugene Ionesco
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess… — Steven Pressfield
No, you should stay right where you are, or my estranged brother and I will settle our difference by seeing who can break more of… — Rachel Vincent
There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged.â€¨ Such moments are most desirable, â€¨for it means the soul has cast its moorings and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far as it goes,… — William T. Vollmann
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… — Miroslav Volf
Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our… — Eugene Ionesco
HOW I FEEL WHEN YOU'RE GONE: abandoned, alone, apart, by oneself, comfortless, companionless, deserted, desolate, destitute, disconsolate, down, empty, estranged, forsaken, godforsaken, homeless, isolated, left,… — Leslie
As you wake up in the morning, see that crazy sun, I hope you just think of me and smile, and keep me in your… — Unknown Author
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… — Unknown Author
Love is not a problem, not an answer to a question. Love knows no question. It is the ground of all, and question arise only… — Pacifiersucker

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