Estrangement Quotes
John Joseph Powell
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
2393Nirad C. Chaudhuri
I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight
1128 Bob Thurber
Time heals nothing. Wounds fester and ooze. Life drags you by a rope over rocks and stones and one day you look up, look back, and see you've been used to cut a path, mark a trail.
4178 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Something new and unexpected, something hitherto unknown and undreamt of, had taken place in him. He did not so much understand with his mind as feel instinctively with the full force of his emotions that he could never again communicate with these people in a great gush of feeling, as he had just now, or in any way whatever.
4423 Norman Manea
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 sinister masks.
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