Quote by Albert Einstein

“Those things that he held most deeply were most profoundly betrayed when he spoke of them to his classes; what was most alive withered…

— John Williams

“he never allowed himself to think about unpleasant things, which answered very well, and could be supported in times of really inescapable stress by…

— Georgette Heyer

“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis, though he…

— Eleanor Catton

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless;…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He sat there among them, listened to the buzz of their conversation. He was captivated by them. In that racket every voice touched a…

— Deszö Kosztolányi

“He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine and betrayed his human love for admiration and…

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but no he saw…

— W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham