“A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul.”

— Georgette Heyer, book These Old Shades

Source: These Old Shades

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British historical romance and detective fiction novelist 1902–1974

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: It Happened One Autumn

“Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“She awakened your soul, but the soft whispers of wisdom led elsewhere. The perfect love, a true connection at a time not willing to wait.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1986

“I know the dark delight of being strange,
The penalty of difference in the crowd,
The loneliness of wisdom among fools”

Claude McKay (1889–1948) Jamaican American writer, poet

Complete Poems, University of Illinois Press, 2004, p. 348

“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”

Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer

L'ironie, c'est la gaieté de la réflexion et la joie de la sagesse. <br class="br">Series III: Rabelais http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19345/19345-8.txt <br class="br">The Literary Life (1888-1892)