Sentence examples for has oneself from inspiring English sources
The suffering of those who take their own lives seems to me to be unimaginable to some of us – a terrifying and heartbreaking thought, how much worse their psychic pain must have been than anything one has oneself experienced.
How much easier to have oneself declared a chimp and win entry to the soft life of a zoo animal!
Such emotions as guilt, shame and pride usually have oneself as their object, or things one closely identifies with, such as family or (for patriots) country.
Thus one could not, for example, fully understand the great Scandinavian sagas unless one had oneself experienced (as he did on his voyage to England) a great tempest in the North Sea.
Ahh... but first one has to get oneself back, don't you think?
Romer conveys like no other contemporary poet the ways in which one knows oneself so well, but can't say who one is, the baffling intimacy one has with oneself, comprised of known and unknown legacies.
The only pastime we know more engrossing than reading something one has written oneself is secretly watching someone else read it.
In the dark days of the war, Lawrence told him, "Nothing matters, in the end, but the little hard flame of truth one has inside oneself.
Once one has rectified oneself, he may set others aright, if this be possible" (Cohen 2002, 83 84).
A freedom which consists of motivated actions, that is to say those actions which involve the transformation of impulses to serve those ends and purposes with which one has identified oneself.
Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed to feel with them, one cannot understand.
