Alice James

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

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.

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.

One has a greater sense of 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.

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.

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

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.