"If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it."

Isolation, End, Want

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"If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it."

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"All along - not only since she left, but for a decade before - I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who - because no one thought she was a person - had no one to really talk to."

John Green, American Author

Isolation, Listening, Fear, Life

"The best part waspulling down theshadesstuffing the doorbellwith ragsputting the phonein therefrigeratorand going to bedfor 3 or 4days. and the next bestpartwasnobody evermissedme."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Isolation, Silence, Apathy, Disappearance

"Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Isolation, Society, Rules, Individual

"The people who had turned their heads turned them again as the service proceeded; and at last observing her they whispered to each other. She knew what their whispers were about, grew sick at heart, and felt that she could come to church no more."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Isolation, Judgment, Society, Fear

"I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

Isolation, Solitude, Distance, People, Peace

"He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear."

George Orwell, British Author

Isolation, Truth, Voice, Silence, Existence

"I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn't want to see any people at all. I had seen so many people all my life -- I was an average mixer, but more than average in a tendency to identify myself, my ideas, my destiny, with those of all classes that came in contact with. I was always saving or being saved -- in a single morning I would go through the emotions ascribable to Wellington at Waterloo. I lived in a world of inscrutable hostiles and inalienable friends and supporters."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Isolation, People, Identity, Emotion

"The library door was thick and none of the ordinary sounds that might have reminded them, might have held them back, could reach them. They were beyond the present, outside time, with no memories and no future."

Ian McEwan, British Author

Isolation, Affection, Escape, Silence

"But this gives no proper idea of my feelings at all; and no one that has not lived such a retired stationary life as mine, can possibly imagine what they were: hardly even if he has known what it is to awake some morning, and find himself in Port Nelson, in New Zealand, with a world of waters between himself and all that knew him."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

Isolation, Memory, Emotion, Reflection

"She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Isolation, Loneliness, Technology, Connection

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