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Source: Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows

“There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation.”

Ifs Feels Different Would Be Together Ability United One Thing Isolation Fewer Disappointing Prodigious Savants

Author:Daniel Tammet

“I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.”

Stills Ideas Solitude Lonely Phones Connected Isolation

Author:Paul Theroux

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”

“Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.”

Ifs Writing Mean Ends Matter Turns Team No Matter What Relate Isolation Solitary Storyteller Superhero

Author:Joss Whedon

Men Care School Strange Beats Painful Teenager Isolation Existential Adolescence Humiliation Humiliated Nobody Cares Being A Teenager Ladies Man

Author:Joss Whedon

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”

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Author:Tennessee Williams

“Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.”

Men Helping Isolation

Author:Tucker Max

“Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]”

Giving Self Moments Age Loss Deals Passing Passings Old Age Isolation Decay Suspension Swiftness Passing Moments

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others.”

“Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.”

Mind Form Literature Silence Habit Isolation Concentration Habits Of Mind Enigmatic

Author:Philip Roth

“There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.”

May Two Four Thousand Isolation Allies Mathematician Abyss Conceded

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.”

Writing Real Light Ability Too Much Reader Becoming Terrible Conscious Simplicity Insight Caring Isolation Writing Advice Decrease

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.”

Source: Les Misérables

“Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.”

Earth Left Normal Tragedy Add Guilt Isolation

Author:Malcolm Lowry

“The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Twisted ripples of the creature's torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl. It had covered its ears against its own sound. The creature stood on a bridge and no one else was present; the creature screamed in isolation. Cut off by - or despite - its outcry.”

Men Hands Sound Cutting Air Cry Painting Horror Creatures Mouths Ears Despite Bridges Isolation Covered Scream Echoes Oppressed Torment Twisted Ripple Howl Pears Inverted

Book:Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes? Food was pleasant; the sun hot; and this killing oneself, how does one set about it, with a table knife, uglily, with floods of blood, - by sucking a gaspipe? He was too weak; he could scarcely raise his hand. Besides, now that he was quite 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.”

Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition

“Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer.”

“Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation.”

Source: Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America

“He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.”

People Stills Whole Earth Safety Jew Isolation Indivisible Parts Of A Whole

Book:Peony: A Novel of China

Source: Peony: A Novel of China

“I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life bound me to them. I felt a sense of inexpressible relief and realized that I had feared, more than death, separation from them. I apprehended that excruciating war survivor's torment, the sense of isolation and self-betrayal experienced by those who had elected to cling yet to breath when their comrades had let loose their grip.”

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Book:Gates Of Fire

Source: Gates Of Fire

“The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.”

Kind Doe Art Soul Body Film Faces Movement Actresses Intense Isolation Filmmaking Great Art Transmit

Author:Louise Brooks

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