 | William James - 1902 - 558 pages
..."What for?" found no response. "I felt," says Tolstoy, "that something had broken within me on which my life had always rested, that I had nothing left to hold on to, and that morally my life had stopped. An invincible force impelled me to get rid of my existence, in one way or another. It cannot be said... | |
 | Oliver Huckel - 1909 - 264 pages
...Concerning one period of his life, Tolstoi wrote : " I felt that something had broken within me on which my life had always rested ; that I had nothing left to...hold on to, and that morally my life had stopped. ... I did not know what I wanted. I was afraid of life. I was driven to leave it : and in spite of... | |
 | Eugene William Lyman - 1918 - 172 pages
...he recounts in his Confession. "I felt," he writes, "that something had broken within me on which my life had always rested, that I had nothing left to...hold on to, and that morally my life had stopped." "Behold me then . . . hiding the rope in order not to hang myself to the rafters of the room where... | |
 | Everett Dean Martin - 1924 - 412 pages
...first case is that of Tolstoy: "I felt," says Tolstoy, "that something had broken within me on which my life had always rested, that I had nothing left to hold on to, and that morally my life had stopped. An invisible force impelled me to get rid of my existence, in one way or another. It cannot be said... | |
 | Eugene William Lyman - 1918 - 172 pages
...recounts in his Confession. "I felt," he writes, "that something had broken within me on which my hie had always rested, that I had nothing left to hold on to, and that morally my life had stopped." "Behold me then . . . hiding the rope in order not to hang myself to the rafters of the room where... | |
 | William James - 1988 - 1410 pages
...'What for?' found no response. "I felt," says Tolstoy, "that something had broken within me on which my life had always rested, that I had nothing left to hold on to, and that morally my life had stopped. An invincible force impelled me to get rid of my existence, in one way or another. It cannot be said... | |
 | Rosemary M. Magee - 1992 - 364 pages
...conflict with a world of disharmony. "I felt," he wrote, "that something had broken within me on which my life had always rested, that I had nothing left to...hold on to, and that morally my life had stopped." He goes on to admit that from an outward point of view his own personal life was ideal — he was in... | |
 | Andre Papineau - 1997 - 148 pages
...not leave him. l felt that something had broken within me on which my life had always rested, that l had nothing left to hold on to, and that morally my life had stopped. An invincible force impelled me to get rid of my existence, in one way or another....lt was a force... | |
 | John Clendenning - 1999 - 486 pages
...felt," Tolstoy had written, "that something had broken within me on which my life had always rested, and that I had nothing left to hold on to, and that morally my life had stopped. ... I did not know what I wanted. I was afraid of life; I was driven to leave it; and in spite of that... | |
 | Jeff Greenberg, Sander Leon Koole, Thomas A. Pyszczynski - 2004 - 550 pages
...when it all collapsed in terror and despair: 1 felt that something had broken within me on which my life had always rested, that I had nothing left to hold on to, and thar morally my life had slopped. . . . One can live only so long as one is intoxicated, drunk with... | |
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that something had broken within me on which my life had always rested, that I had nothing left to hold on to, and that morally my life had stopped. 
