Quote by Walter Isaacson

“through most of the night. Even thus isolated, he became known for his brashness. On those occasions”

— Walter Isaacson

“The final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he was an outsider, and anti-social, and he accepted the fact inwardly,…

— D.H. Lawrence

“He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.”

— Julie Anne Long

“He was someone who had to live alone, someone who found it difficult to be with others for any length of time, because he…

— John Burnside

“He was finally able to bask in his own existence; and he found it splendid.”

— Patrick Süskind

“and the gradual realization that he was”

— James Patterson

“these cause the ideas of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst”

— Victor Hugo

“He was mercurial—self-conscious one minute, brazen the next.”

— Diane Chamberlain

“Modern man became psychological because he became isolated from protective collective ideologies. He had to justify himself from within himself.”

— Ernest Becker

“Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it...”

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

“Alone in his room, he smiled at his secret greatness.”

— Lev Grossman

“He was somewhat of a loner by temperament--because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people.”

— Colin Dexter