Maurice Quote by E.M. Forster

“He was left a good deal to himself. He had been inclined to talkativeness, but gradually he became silent. He began to think of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He felt useless and degraded, as if he no longer lived for others but for himself alone.”

— Bernard Werber

“...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

“Resigned that those surrounding him had no idea who he was, and invariably kind to his social and intellectual inferiors, he sometimes felt doubly…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Like it was different up here with him now. Less solitary.More complete.The freedom to be and the freedom to enjoy.”

— Barbara Delinsky

“It was I, no less solitary than he but having made the lesser use of the morning, who was to be pitied.”

— Teju Cole

“Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the…

— Walter de la Mare

“He craved silences and solitude. He simply could not get lost in another person’s life.”

— Sreesha Divakaran

“It wasn't the loss of freedom that deterred him; the men who squealed most about that were usually the least free. Much more difficult…

— P.D James

“He was somewhat of a loner by temperament--because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people.”

— Colin Dexter

“There wasn’t a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just…

— Joanna Chambers

“...there seemed some necessity of taking all or nothing; it was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald