Alice James
Alice James
Alice Jameswas an American diarist. The only daughter of Henry James, Sr. and sister of psychologist and philosopher William James and novelist Henry James, she is known mainly for the posthumously published diary that she kept in her final years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 August 1848
CountryUnited States of America
writing reflection thinking
I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.
complacency gains conscious
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.
pain fall 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.
dream giving-up reality
I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
loyalty children husband
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.
women memorable doctors
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
death fun dying
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
games vanity able
How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.
book shapes four
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich...
believe twenties compliment
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
people unhappy way
Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?
men needs emotion
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.