Blessed Quote by Anonymous

This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

— J. V. Cunningham

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world…

— Willa Sibert Cather

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that…

— Neal Stephenson

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

— Anonymous

His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person,…

— Max Born

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged…

— Denise Mina

To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real…

— Jane Austen

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

— Nicholas Sparks

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

— Joan Didion

“What was astonishing to him was how people seemed to run out of their own being, run out of whatever the stuff was that…

— Philip Roth

“It had belonged to that idea of the exasperated consciousness of his victim to become a real test for him; since he had quite…

— Henry James