Understanding why is never enough.

Lucy Freeman

Categorized in : Understanding Why Enough Understanding

When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.

frightened snob arrogance

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

revenge suicide hurt

Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear.

faces may

Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

unhappiness parent unhappy

often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.

jest speak truth

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

parent civilization children

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

wrath anger roots

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.

community law men

Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.

megalomania ultimate murder

Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.

defense persons fear

Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm.

calm anxiety familiar

The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry.

devil anger loneliness

... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.

violence enough way