A-passage-to-india Quote by E. M. Forster

“He had always thought of himself as a successful man, although nothing he had ever done had turned out successfully.”

— Sherwood Anderson

“He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.”

— James Jones

“He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as…

— Victoria Schwab

“Sometimes he felt like the only one on earth. He was different. He always was. His attempts at living in the regular world seemed…

— Ann Brashares

“He was one of those people who stared at you with a meaningful smile on their face, as if he was somehow intellectually and…

— Kate Atkinson

“He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.”

— Julie Anne Long

“And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man’s finer emotions,…

— Thomas Hardy

“For a moment he was filled with envy, revolt, and bitter jealousy. He asked himself why he was poor whilst others were rich.”

— Émile Zola

“He had been too successful, you see; his was that solitude of contempt and distrust which success brings to him who gained it because…

— William Faulkner

“had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the…

— Douglas Adams