Estrangement Quotes

26 quotes by 23 authors

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. — Theodor Adorno
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in certain… — Janet Morris
The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales… — Naomi Wolf
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to… — John Zerzan
People need a consistent explanation of the cross of Christ and what it accomplished. Christ's atoning work is the centerpiece of the gospel and the… — R C Sproul
The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement. — Pat Conroy
Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement. — Amy Dickinson
To declare in St John's words that Jesus and the Father are one is to claim that Jesus's dependence on the Other is not self-estrangement… — Terry Eagleton
To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you… — E. Stanley Jones
Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Feminist education â€” the feminist classroom â€” is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment… — Bell Hooks
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism… — Jonathan Franzen
The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacleâ€™s estrangement from… — Guy Debord
As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I… — Stephen Fry
A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The… — Starhawk
Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has… — Adrienne Rich
There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were… — Jane Austen

Who Wrote These Estrangement Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 26 Estrangement Quotes as follows: