Author: Alice James

Quotes

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 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.

- Alice James

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

- Alice James

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.

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.

- Alice James

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

- Alice James

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

- Alice James

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.

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.

- Alice James

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