Alone-in-a-crowd Quote by Iris Murdoch

“I wrote that outsiders were often lonely, but they needed to be to change the world around them. And they understood loyalty far better…

— Julian North

“...savoring the sense of loneliness and freedom that comes only from solitary sojourns in strange lands...”

— Barry Eisler

“And no one realizes we should all, always, look like that, each with his eyes full of horror at his own, inescapable solitude.”

— Luigi Pirandello

“They were not unfortunate girls who, as outcasts or in the belief that they were cast out by society, grieved wholesomely and intensely and,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“And his brow was lofty with thought, and his eye wild with care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I read the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Eccentricity is the universal trait of humanity.”

— Dean Koontz

“They were charming and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife…

— Lemony Snicket

“I meditated on the nature of friendship as I practiced the craft. My friends had always come from outside the mainstream. I had always…

— Pat Conroy

“I still felt as a wanderer on the face of the earth,but i experienced firmer trust in myself and my own powers and less…

— Charlotte Brontë

“And then there's another snag you keep coming across: such decent and sensible people keep appearing in life, such wise men, and such lovers…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist in the…

— Hermann Hesse

“I have made all sorts of acquaintances, but have as yet found no society. I know not what attraction I possess for the people,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe