William Alexander Quotes

Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!

We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.

Those who suffer profoundly are granted profound wisdom.

I'm a passionate person; there's a lot going on underneath my carousel of blazers: a cauldron of sensitivity and emotion.

My brokenness has made me become more primal, more instinctual.

I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.

Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering

What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he would have emerged, bewildered and blinking, on the far side of the earth. Was he awed by her? Absolutely. Did he respect her? Unequivocally. Want to be anything like her? No, never, not at all.

People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.

I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

You can't run away from yourself

My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.