Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“In spite of the momentary desire he had just been feeling for company of any sort, on being actually spoken to he felt immediately…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Before you reject a stranger think of the courage it must have taken for them to approach you.”

— Germany Kent

“Annoyances are strangely not so annoying when the person responsible has endeared himself to you.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“For weeks I had mistaken his stare for barefaced hostility. I was wide of the mark. It was simply a shy man's way of…

— André Aciman

“The things about others that irritate, annoy, and unsettle us are the very things we have not accepted and embraced about ourselves”

— R. Alan Woods

“Once You Feel Like You Are Avoided By Someone, Never Disturb Them Again..”

— Anynomous

“In familiar surroundings our manners are cheerful and easy, but only transport us to places where we know no one and no one knows…

— Susanna Clarke

“One becomes accustomed to one's solitude, and it begins to seem rather phony to try to reach out.”

— Louisa Hall

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather

“We both see strangers and react. We don't like to walk by people without nodding. We're broken when people are rude. Were broken when…

— Dave Eggers

“No one enjoys being talked down to, but I have a particular aversion to it.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Most bad behavior is about that person’s core fears about themselves; it is rarely about you.”

— Kimberly Giles