Enriching Quote by Georg Brandes

Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I…

— Herta Muller

I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled.

— John Clare

There was a lot of creative energy that I had, that I feel wasn't understood, and I think that whole world for me felt…

— Diane Birch

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except…

— Josiah Royce

I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.

— Jojo Moyes

The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of items, an…

— Annie Dillard

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose…

— William Wordsworth

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing…

— Liz Murray

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.

— Lucy Christopher

Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that…

— Nicole Krauss