Cookies on this website are used to improve your experience and display advertising. You agree to the use of cookies by continuing to use this website. Our Privacy Policy contains more information about how we use cookies.
Explore inspirational quotes.
How we need another... | How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into. Copy | ||
I felt my lungs... | I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy. Copy | ||
I have never found... | I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give. Copy | ||
I have the choice... | I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Copy | ||
I looked on my... | I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes. Copy | ||
In London the day... | In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.' Copy | ||
Is anyone anywhere happy?... | Is anyone anywhere happy? Copy | ||
It is as if... | It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it. Copy | ||
My mother's face floated... | My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me. Copy | ||
Yes, I was infatuated... | Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those. Copy |
Cookies on this website are used to improve your experience and display advertising. You agree to the use of cookies by continuing to use this website. Our Privacy Policy contains more information about how we use cookies.