Different Quote by Carson McCullers

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 felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever…

— Dean Koontz

“He used to hide his true self because he feared people wouldn’t like him, or would judge him for being too much this and…

— Scott Stabile

He was comforted by one of the simpler emotions which some human beings are lucky enough to experience. He knew when he died he…

— Noel Annan

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

— George Eliot

It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain,…

— Diana Gabaldon

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 the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in the light…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of…

— Albert Einstein

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion.…

— Patrick Süskind

The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how…

— Meg Rosoff

“After years of pretending at emotions, he'd grown to appreciate their mystery, their chaos and randomness. Sometimes they were predictable, one-dimensional, almost stupid -…

— Kim White