#isolation

A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#colour #exposure #isolation #jargon #life

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#love #love

The pain we feel in separation is the price we pay for love. ↗

— Hatef Mokhtar

#love #romance #sacrifice #separated #love

As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#loneliness #people #dreams

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self. ↗

— Jerzy Kosiński

#identity #isolation #love #lovers #relationships

If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#reality #solitude #sisters

The arts don't exist in isolation. ↗

— David Byrne

#exist #isolation

I don't care what you think unless it is about me. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#narcissism #opinion #opinions

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#bunny #filming #find #go #houses

And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#became #been #broadened #day #discovery