"He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd."

Isolation, Loneliness, Identity, Truth, Solitude

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"He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd."

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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

"Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be."

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"It's like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard and no one will ever hear me in here. No one will ever hear me again."

Tahereh Mafi, Iranian Author

Isolation, Pain, Silence, Despair

"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."

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"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."

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"All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow."

Wonder

"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."

Adversity

"What's your heart telling you to do?I don't know.'Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it."

Intuition

"So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him- go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again, if I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out."

Commitment

"I want all of you, forever everyday. You and me everyday."

Romance

"I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want."

Understanding

"That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?"

Humor

"If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?"

Respect

"Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those things have anything to do with who makes them one night in the bedroom or the experience of being pregnant."

Parenting

"She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues."

Honor