. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
Virginia WoolfTags: solitude loneliness characters isolation personality
I don't care what you think unless it is about me.
Kurt CobainTags: opinion isolation narcissism
No man is an island, entire of itself.
John DonneTags: mankind isolation connectedness island
...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow, that something kept her from ever fully bridging the gap between who she was and who all these other people, making their way through the very same day, were.
Daphne KalotayTags: isolation
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors.
Tags: isolation neighbors mending-wall fences
Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. That is why, in spite of a hundred disadvantages, the world will always return to monogamy.
G.K. ChestertonTags: fear isolation allies monogamy ordeals mathmaticians
You and I share the same DNA.
Is there anything more lonely than that?
Tags: loneliness isolation alienation dna
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.
Carlos FuentesTess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say "good morning" in public without being liquored up.
Amelia GrayTags: isolation dating alcohol alienation digital-age
Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: beauty sherlock-holmes isolation crime rural-life impunity
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