{"quotes":[{"text":"I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My feet stepped like theirs over the floorboards and the flagstones, but my heart was far away, even if it beat close by, false master of an estranged and exiled body.","author":"Fernando Pessoa","tags":["dreams","estrangement","exile","imagination","stranger","visions"],"id":21743,"author_id":"Fernando+Pessoa"},{"text":"When he called she tried not to break down, but voice so often betrays emotion and her's wept, 'He looked happy, even if I had to see his sweet little face from far away. I want him to be happy...Even if his happiness is not with me.'That's love,' he said.'Love,' she repeated. 'We love because we can lose.'There is pain when we have to step away and some may say 'You don't care,' but little do they know, we cared enough to do so...","author":"Donna Lynn Hope","tags":["estrangement","happiness","loss","real-love","sacrifice","separation","true-love"],"id":58602,"author_id":"Donna+Lynn+Hope"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Joseph Powell","tags":["affection","alone","beauty","camaraderie","caring","caring-for-others","closeness","companionship","compassion","connectedness","connection","disconnection","empathy","estrangement","fellowship","friendship","friendship","hug","hugs","intimacy","isolation","kindness","kindred-spirits","loneliness","love","love-at-first-sight","love","lovers","loving","loving-someone","mirror","mutuality","partnership","reciprocal","reciprocity","reflected-in-you","relationship","relationship","relationships","romance","self-belief","self-esteem","self-hatred","self-realization","self-worth","self-worthiness","soul-mate","soulmates","togetherness","touch","twin-flames"],"id":67576,"author_id":"John+Joseph+Powell"},{"text":"She'd brought everybody apart, tearing the whole family that was once a compact groundwork into a whole new design, ugly and non-structured.","author":"Diyar Harraz","tags":["estrangement","family","fault","life","unwanted-child"],"id":89458,"author_id":"Diyar+Harraz"},{"text":"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.","author":"Norman Manea","tags":["alien","alienation","assimilation","civics","emigration","estrangement","immigration","society"],"id":115873,"author_id":"Norman+Manea"},{"text":"Indelible waitingl'art poetique'..I will wait for the night to chase me...'I sit on a rock and watch children playingin the park belowThey don't see meOr know my thoughtsOr that you haven't calledBut I forgive them their indifference todayAbove me a crow cawsPerhaps he smells the crumbs on my dressOr my angerBut he flits away over the treesProbably has a homeProbably has a wifeProbably knew to callThe children leaveThe coffee in my can turns coldThe wind nips at meSome street lights flicker onBut I won't moveNot yetI will wait for the night to chase meBack where I came fromUp the empty streetTo a quiet house.","author":"Adelheid Manefeldt","tags":["alone","bird-poems","breaking-up","children-poems","desolation","emptiness","estrangement","indelible-waiting","lies","loneliness","love","love-poems","marriage","moving-on","poetry","resentment","romance","sorrow","waiting"],"id":159878,"author_id":"Adelheid+Manefeldt"},{"text":"Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence.","author":"Michael J. Cohen","tags":["bewilderment","creation","dependencies","estrangement","global","greed","nature","personal","separation","violence","wilderness"],"id":165890,"author_id":"Michael+J.+Cohen"},{"text":"Immediately after a divorce or a breakup, your mind whispers that there are plenty more fish in the sea, while your heart shouts that there is only one whoever-you-just-divorced-or-broke-up-with.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["annul","annulment","breach","breakup","dating","dissolution","divorce","estrangement","humor","humour","marriage","parting","proposal","relationship","relationships","rift","satire","separate","separation","shout","split","wedding","whisper"],"id":171908,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.","author":"Edward Said","tags":["estrangement","exile","migration","sorrow"],"id":206801,"author_id":"Edward+Said"},{"text":"Man's nature, he postulated, was to be a 'free conscious producer,' but so far he had not been able to express himself freely in productive activity. He had been driven to produce by need and greed, by a passion for accumulation which in the modern bourgeois age becomes accumulation of capital. His productive activity had always, therefore, been involuntary; it had been 'labour.","author":"Robert C. Tucker","tags":["alienated-labor","bourgeois","capital","capitalism","communism","entfremdungsgeschichte","estrangement","free-conscious-producer","hegel","labor","marx"],"id":334010,"author_id":"Robert+C.+Tucker"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}