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

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"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 world has nothing to offer me, no single shred of interest. I'm a woman trapped on a balcony, watching a passing parade, a blur of noise and motion that eventually turns to a single point on the horizon, a gutter full of trampled and muddy cups, and the sense of wasting an afternoon."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Isolation, World, Observation, Life

"To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Isolation, Boundaries, Emotion, Self

"You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that."

Anthony Minghella, British Director

Isolation, Writer

"I was alone, with a stranger, inside the walls of a dark palace, in a strange snow-changed city, in the heart of the Ice Age of an alien world."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Isolation, Darkness, Survival, Environment

"The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote."

Paul D. Boyer, American Scientist

Isolation, Problems, Television, World

"If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain."

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

Isolation,

"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."

Martha Beck, American Author

Isolation, End, Want

"There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world."

A. R. Ammons, American Poet

Isolation, World

"I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay?"I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while."

John Green, American Author

Isolation, Books, Reading, Protection

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"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."

"The world has nothing to offer me, no single shred of interest. I'm a woman trapped on a balcony, watching a passing parade, a blur of noise and motion that eventually turns to a single point on the horizon, a gutter full of trampled and muddy cups, and the sense of wasting an afternoon."

"To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand."

"You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that."

"I was alone, with a stranger, inside the walls of a dark palace, in a strange snow-changed city, in the heart of the Ice Age of an alien world."

"The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote."

"If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain."

"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."

"There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world."

Explore more quotes by Thomas Carlyle

"All great peoples are conservative."

"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time."

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity."

"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."

"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."

"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."

"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."