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  1. Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild

    A lot of us are like that-I'm like that, Ed Abbey was like that, and it sounds like this McCandless kid was like that: We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.
    book-quotepeopleindependencesocial

  2. Virginia Woolf _ Mrs. Dalloway

    alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know
    book-quotediefreedomjoy

  3. John le Carré _ The Spy Who Came In from the

    We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't like that really, I mean...one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold...d'you see what I mean?
    book-quotelonelinessspyingisolation

  4. Alice Sebold _ The Lovely Bones

    She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.
    book-quoteinspirationalisolationanonymity

  5. Bell Hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.
    book-quotelonelinessisolationdespair

  6. John Fowles _ The Magus

    It is not the state of war that isolates. It is well known, it brings people together. But in the battlefield -- that is something different.Because that is when the real enemy, death, appears. I no longer saw any warmth in numbers. I saw only Thanatos in them, my death. And just as much in my own comrades, in Montague, as in the invisible Germans.
    book-quotewardeathisolation

  7. John Fowles _ The Magus

    When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the cage of glass between me and the rest of the world - she just laughed. 'You like it,' she said. 'You say you're isolated, boyo, but you really think you're different.
    book-quoteisolationfriendlessness

  8. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad

    She was a stray after all. A stray not only in its plantation meaning-orphaned, with no one to look after her-but in every other sphere as well. Somewhere, years ago, she had stepped off the path of life and could no longer find her way back to the family of people.
    book-quoteisolationstray

  9. Gregory Maguire _ Out of Oz

    Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. {...} We don't get an endless number of orbits away from the place where meaning first arises, that treasure-house of first experiences. What we learn, instead, is that our adventures secure us in our isolation. Experience revokes our licence to return to simpler times. Sooner or later, there's no place remotely like home.
    book-quotehomeisolation

  10. Virginia Woolf _ Orlando

    . . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
    book-quotelonelinesspersonalitysolitude

  11. Richard Matheson _ Mad House

    And he wonders, deep in the self-isolated recesses of his mind whether he is killing himself with anger, whether he is destroying his system with fury."
    book-quotemadnessisolation

  12. Jonathan Franzen _ How to Be Alone

    Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.
    book-quotereadingintegrityisolation
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