Alice James Quotes
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.
How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.
Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.