Kate Chopin Quotes

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

I would give up my life for my children, but not myself.

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction.

The way to become rich is to make money, not to save it.

Goodbye -- Because I love you.

but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

Have you ever heard the earth breath?

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

So the storm passed and every one was happy.

She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.

We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else in the world is of any consequence.

Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.

There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.