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Quotes About Isolation

The best progressive ideas are those that include a strong enough dose of provocation to make its supporters feel proud of being original, but at the same time attract so many adherents that the risk of being an isolated exception is immediately averted by the noisy approval of the triumphant crowd.
~ Milan Kundera
I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
~ Patti Smith
There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
~ Paul Auster
I love all waste and solitary places.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I love to shut out the world sometimes and hibernate.
~ Poppy Delevingne
No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.
~ Robert Breault
I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.
~ Sarah-Patton Boyle
I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.
~ Sherwood Anderson
They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.
~ Suzanne Collins
Nobody loved her and she wouldn't have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
~ Toni Morrison
I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.
~ Tony Kushner
I am interested in the loneliness and isolation that we can feel when we hide feelings we are ashamed of, especially if they concern people that we love.
~ Torill Kove
Nobody's in love with me. I'm so sorry.
~ Walter Pfeiffer
There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me.
~ William Shakespeare
Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?
~ Bobby Darin
You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.
~ Charles Dickens
I'll hear a song I love and suddenly I'm isolated from everything around me just for a nanosecond. That's a moment between a moment.
~ Charlie Sheen
You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.
~ Dan Chaon
When you don't have love, it's like there's a party going on, and everybody was invited, except for you. And you just happened to be walking by that house in the rain...
~ Dane Cook
'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.
~ Daniel Handler
I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.
~ Duncan Jones
He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
~ Edith Hamilton
... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.
~ Elizabeth Bowen