Kindred spirit Quote by Doug Dorst

“A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel.”

— Charles Dickens

“There was a lot to be said for a man’s capacity to be comfortable while alone.”

— John Connolly

“The sense that the only thing better than being alone would be to be with someone who made you feel as safe and comfortable…

— Kelley Armstrong

“Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I’d always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick,…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“But the longing within him had grown even greater, the overpowering need to be alone. Locked in an empty room, entirely unwitnessed, silent and…

— Philip K. Dick

“But strange though it may seem, the more he judged, and the more he realized that men feared and acknowledged his right to judge,…

— Lev Shestov

“...he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship of kind…

— Marcus Clarke

“I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“...he was by no means expansive, and talked little indeed, but not from shyness or a sullen unsociability; quite the contrary, from something different,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“His manner invited easy confidence. The preliminary stage of becoming acquainted was one which he always endeavored to ignore when a pretty and engaging…

— Kate Chopin

“It had never occurred to his honest, simple little mind that there were people who could forget kindnesses.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“He certainly seemed to have all the qualities of a gentleman, but the interesting kind who knows exactly when to stop behaving like one.”

— Michael Dibdin