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 as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

The wretched have no friends.

Lack of friends means, stranger in one's own country.

You never see the ones who really love you and help you; you're always involved with strangers.

Still never had any friends because I hate everyone for they were so phony.

they seemed to be greater strangers than before

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Individuals of the earlier species had suffered from an almost insurmountable spiritual isolation from one another. Not even lovers, and scarcely even the geniuses with special insight into personality, ever had anything like accurate vision of one another.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

[...] such an impudent, shameless, miserable, lousy fellow I've never met with.

When they seated themselves in their carriage, they seemed to be greater strangers than before.

It never ceases to surprise me how few friends the doomed have. One moment they are surrounded by smiling faces, the next they are utterly friendless.

It felt now as if I'd never known them and I couldn't know them again. It seemed to me that whatever had existed back in the place where I'd grown up was so far away now, impossible to retrieve.