534 Quotes About Isolation

  • Author Carl Sutton
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    As a teenager and young adult, I found being mute intensely isolating and dehumanizing. I felt truly like I was just a pair of eyes and ears - an entity without a body, without a face, and without a mouth. I felt as though I was barely a physical being.

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  • Author Meša Selimović
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    Tada mi je padala na um čudna, obeshrabrujuća misao da je u teškom položaju čovjek koji je duhovno razvijeniji od drugih, ukoliko ga ne štiti položaj, i strah koji taj položaj daje. Postaje usamljenik: njegova su mjerila drukčija, i nikome ne koriste a njega izdvajaju.

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  • Author Carson McCullers
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    There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.

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  • Author Colson Whitehead
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    She was a stray after all. A stray not only in its plantation meaning-orphaned, with no one to look after her-but in every other sphere as well. Somewhere, years ago, she had stepped off the path of life and could no longer find her way back to the family of people.

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  • Author Jonathan Lee
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    He [Andrew Haswell Green] wanted to say, Don't go, but he still did not know how. To open himself up to a hard, hurtful truth again seemed the very worst of options. Some people are perhaps meant to live alone.

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