Isolation offered its own form of companionship

Jhumpa Lahiri

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The worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality.

Shyza Chaudhry

Tags: loneliness isolation



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Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go.

Nelson Algren

Tags: alone isolation running-away



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alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

Virginia Woolf

Tags: freedom joy alone isolation die deserted condemned



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I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture, but they always melt like a dream, trickle away, water on the oiled pelt of foreign.

Jasmine Ann Cooray

Tags: politics poetry identity ignorance isolation race envy objectification mixed-race nationhood



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I tell myself I’m fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my own devices, I have no devices.

Jael McHenry

Tags: friends relationships living alone isolation support introvert



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We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't like that really, I mean...one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold...d'you see what I mean?

John Le Carré

Tags: loneliness isolation spying espionage



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