Abhorrent Quote by Patrick Süskind

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

— Robert M. Pirsig

It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone…

— Neal Shusterman

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

— Patrick Süskind

When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it…

— Frank Herbert

He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

— Philip Roth

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

— Oscar Wilde

“His life was absurd. He went all over the world accepting all kinds of bondage and escaping. He was roped to a chair. He…

— E.L. Doctorow

He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the…

— Anais Nin

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which…

— Anonymous

Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a…

— Garth Stein

Man was not made for himself alone

— Plato

“Free gasped as an unexpected realization swept over him. Humans talked incessantly because—like him—they were alone.”

— Steven L. Hawk