"Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor."

Isolation, Risk, Danger, Safety

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"Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamn lonely anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Isolation, Loneliness, Religion, Escape

"The Forest that had been about her all her life, certain as a mountain, was made ashes. The high gable that had stood for two hundred years fallen in ruin. Throvenland was torn apart like smoke on the wind. Nowhere would be safe, ever again."

Joe Abercrombie, English Novelist

Isolation, Destruction, War, Loss, Chaos

"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

"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

"Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand."

Sophie Kinsella, British Author

Isolation, Truth, Observation, Power

"Dreams deny her the freedom she truly seeks. Darkness consumes. Leg muscles burn. She runs away, even while lost in the paradise of sleep. Gravity is a crushing force bearing down on her chest, shattering wings and refusing her flight. A whisper in her mind. You don't belong here."

Laura Kreitzer, American Author

Isolation, Dream, Struggle, Emotion

"I slump in my chair, thinking how a narcotic party of one is no party at all."

Elle Lothlorien, American Novelist

Isolation, Loneliness, Addiction, Reflection

"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."

Elfriede Jelinek, American Playwright

Isolation, Problems, Solidarity

"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

"Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It's an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don't see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior."

Benjamin Alire Saenz, American Poet

Isolation, Individual, Introspection, Independence

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"He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense."

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"Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham."

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"No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little."

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