Eleven minutes Quote by Paulo Coelho's

“He was distrustful of happiness as some people fear heights or open spaces.”

— Graham Swift

“He had been too successful, you see; his was that solitude of contempt and distrust which success brings to him who gained it because…

— William Faulkner

“Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.”

— Simona Panova

“And he felt dubious and discontented suddenly, and wondered whether he was really and truly successful as a human being.”

— E. M. Forster

“He'd had his career, his triumphs. Success had brought him nothing but misery; he couldn't handle it. Success had thrown him in the gutter”

— John Grisham

“He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt…

— Isabel Allende

“And now he had acquired the wisdom to admit that sometimes experienced his disdain for “weak, sick people” because he was frightened by any…

— James C. Coyne

“He thought proudly that many people in his position could not have adjusted, would have gone mad. Of course, he was descending.… But he…

— Thomas M. Disch

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers

“He knew that to achieve greatness you had to be an outsider. He knew that by struggling against adverse opinion, by sometimes feeling inadequate,…

— David Gibbins

“Yet whenever he thought of himself as a dull, deluded opportunist, compared with other people, he always remembered the intensity of his own feelings…

— John P. Marquand

“Admitting to fear was not something which came easily to him. He had been schooled, from almost as soon as he could walk, to…

— Dave Hutchinson