Estrangement Quotes
26 quotes by 23 authors
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Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
— Theodor Adorno
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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
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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
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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
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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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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
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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
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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
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The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.
— Pat Conroy
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Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.
— Amy Dickinson
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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
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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
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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
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Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment…
— Bell Hooks
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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
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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 from…
— Guy Debord
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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
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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
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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
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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: