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Top 10 Alfred Hayes Quotes (2024 Update)

Alfred Hayes Quote: “The only thing we haven’t lost, I thought, is the ability to suffer. We’re fine at suffering. But it’s such a noiseless suffering. We never disturb the neighbors with it. We collapse, but we collapse in the most disciplined way. That’s us. That’s certainly us. The disciplined collapsers.”
Alfred Hayes Quote: “The sick constriction of the heart was undeniable; there was a melancholy truth in the fact that it was suffering which made me, I thought, at last real to myself.”
Alfred Hayes Quote: “I had no idea what a delicious feeling it was, to be free, to be absolutely unconcerned about whether one loved or didn’t love. It was such a bore, loving. Being so concerned, so dreadfully afraid of saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing. She was so glad to be rid of it, all the concern.”
Alfred Hayes Quote: “Your only vice is yourself. The worst of all. The really incurable one.”
Alfred Hayes Quote: “All I knew, really, was that she had taken away with her when she had gone something which in the past had held me together, some necessary sense of myself... For without whatever it was, I seemed poor, depleted, injured in some mysterious way; without it, there was nothing to interpose between the world and me.”
Alfred Hayes Quote: “There were times when I would forget her, though they were rare, and it would be for a time as though she had never existed; and then some passing girl’s inadvertent gesture, or an accidental profile, or a hat like hers, would restore her, and restore the suffering too, and I would long again, somehow, to encounter or to see her.”
Alfred Hayes Quote: “I really didn’t have a good vice. Liquor in moderate quantities. Love on the installment plan. Wouldn’t it be nice if I could really cultivate some impressive vice? Some excessive cruelty or some astonishing sacrifice.”
Alfred Hayes Quote: “How intolerable now the weight of what I was seemed upon me. How subtle a punishment life had devised. Often I felt as though my own pain had cornered me in some room and I was alone with it, like some animal that was inescapable.”
Alfred Hayes Quote: “And besides, love: there were so many other emotions which weren’t love at all, but which masqueraded as love, or assumed its name; didn’t she agree?”
Alfred Hayes Quote: “I’d have chosen another life if I were a pretty girl. Would I? she said; I’d have to be a pretty girl first, and then I’d have to choose among the possibilities open to a pretty girl. They weren’t so various; not really. They may have looked various, to someone who wasn’t, but there weren’t so many choices when you knew.”
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