534 Quotes About Isolation

  • Author Delphine de Vigan
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    L'idée de la campagne était pour moi synonyme d'isolement, contenait une notion inhérente de danger. La Campagne était associée à la peur et à une certaine idée d'enfermement.

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  • Author Emma Cline
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    Let's just give her a ride into town," Suzanne said. She spoke briskly, like I was a mess that needed to be cleaned up. Even so, I was glad. I was used to thinking about people who never thought about me.

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  • Author Gabriel Chevallier
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    During several centuries Clochemerle, far from the cities and trade routes, had lived in stillness and isolation. But now, at last, the clamour of the great world was crossing the invisible barrier, bringing doubts, temptations, and discontents.

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  • Author Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni
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    Every person who was a genius, a mental giant, or a great contributor to the human race watered the seeds of his greatness from the well of isolation, until the seed became a plant, and then finally, a formidable tree.

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  • Author Ursula K. Le Guin
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    He welcomed isolation with all his heart. It never occurred to him that the reserve he met in Bedap and Tirin might be a response; that his gentle but already formidable hermetic character might form its own ambiance, which only great strength, or great devotion, could withstand. All he noticed, really, was that he had plenty of time to work at last.

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  • Author Madeleine L'Engle
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    The writing of a book may be a solitary business, it is done alone. The writer sits down with paper and pen, or typewriter, and, withdrawn from the world, tries to set down the story that is crying to be written. We write alone, but we do not write in isolation. No matter how fantastic a story line may be, it still comes out of our response to what is happening to us and to the world in which we live.

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