Quote by Pauline Wiles

“The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“[T]he two things, life style and work, have become one. Now if that’s eccentricity, then I’m eccentric.”

— Mason Currey

“Eccentricity is the universal trait of humanity.”

— Dean Koontz

“One is expected to show a bit of eccentricity to be interesting. Otherwise one is simply a sad old crone, and no one wants…

— Camilla Läckberg

“We aren't eccentric, we're not bizarre. To each other, we're as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family.…

— John Irving

“The thing about setting your life up so you could be completely alone was that you ended up completely alone.”

— Julie Lawson Timmer

“To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made…

— Jane Devin

“Loneliness, maybe. Or aloneness. The way I don’t fit here or there.”

— Yaa Gyasi

“I should know by now that Tremaine’s definition of eccentric is… eccentric.”

— Martha Wells

“How else, except through being alone for a while, could you ever discover who you really are? But”

— Tananarive Due

“It was strangely simple the way that one thing suddenly defined you to other people.”

— Mara Purnhagen