Kate Chopin Quotes about Soul

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

Artist, Soul, Courageous

1899 The Awakening, ch.39.

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

Kate Chopin

Artist, Effort, Soul

Kate Chopin (2014). “The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

Kate Chopin

Delirium Tremens, Soul, Contentment

Kate Chopin (2016). “THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South”, p.72, e-artnow

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

Kate Chopin

Tangled, Soul, Murmuring

Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.34

one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul

Kate Chopin

Dream, Reality, Soul

Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.81

In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight - perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.

Kate Chopin

Eight, Soul, Twenties

Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.33

Kate Chopin Quotes about Soul

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