"But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other."

Isolation, Community, Distance, Humanity

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"But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other."

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"The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; and so did I."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Isolation, Mortality, Existence, Life, Death

"I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Isolation, Loneliness, Society, Self

"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Isolation, Man

"I can't go outside, I know to much to be out there and I had never liked people."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Isolation, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"She walked in somber seclusion, unable to connect with women despite her heart's desire to do so while being shadowed by men who hungered for the indefinable; and while she yearned for friendship, they yearned for something more and what she had been in search of remained removed from her, and the more she erected barriers, the more they crossed them and each time they did, she turned from them and hid."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Isolation, Connection, Desire, Friendship

"Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Isolation, Stillness, Ocean, Time

"If you stay here, you become lost. And no one can find you. I like lost."

Ally Condie, American Author

Isolation, Escape, Mystery, Freedom

"This woman's size protected herfrom the hurts of the worldbut it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face."

David W. Earle, American Author

Isolation, Protection, Imprisonment, Soul, Sadness

"I hate most people. And I don't want to, it's an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It's repulsive, because one's life consists of people, not things."

Morrissey, British Singer

Isolation, Humanity, Emotion, Books

"All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Isolation, Loneliness, Solitude, Realization, Emotion

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"You're always making up stuff from the past, she said. "And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened."

Memory

"Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is."

Mortality

"Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze."

Family

"Lies have short shelf lives. Lies go bad. Lies rot and stink up the joint."

Truth

"When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author."

Gratitude

"Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other."

Empathy

"I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?"Well, you should be more careful where you drive," the officer said. "You're making people nervous. You don't fit the profile of the neighborhood."I wanted to tell him that I didn't fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble."

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"The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; and so did I."

"I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody."

"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man."

"I can't go outside, I know to much to be out there and I had never liked people."

"Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean."

"If you stay here, you become lost. And no one can find you. I like lost."

"This woman's size protected herfrom the hurts of the worldbut it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face."

"I hate most people. And I don't want to, it's an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It's repulsive, because one's life consists of people, not things."

"All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was."

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"You're always making up stuff from the past, she said. "And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened."

"My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures."

"If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time."

"The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more."

"Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is."

"Lies have short shelf lives. Lies go bad. Lies rot and stink up the joint."

"When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author."

"Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other."