Heart Quotes by Kate Chopin

“The heart jealous of the soul!”

— Kate Chopin

“She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves.”

— Kate Chopin

A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

— Kate Chopin

“She seemed to have apprehended all of the composer's coldness and none of his poetry.”

— Kate Chopin

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

— Kate Chopin

“But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely.”

— Kate Chopin

“She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.”

— Kate Chopin

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

— Kate Chopin

“His coming was in the nature of a welcome disturbance; it seemed to furnish a new direction for her emotions.”

— Kate Chopin

There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That…

— Kate Chopin

Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively…

— Kate Chopin

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she…

— Kate Chopin

“Or else she stayed in and nursed a mood with which she was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace…

— Kate Chopin

“Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an…

— Kate Chopin

It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet…

— Kate Chopin

“She was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind. It was not despair; but it seemed to her…

— Kate Chopin

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before…

— Kate Chopin

“She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing…

— Kate Chopin

She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region…

— Kate Chopin

“She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant. She could not at that moment have done other than denied…

— Kate Chopin

“She waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination. She waited in vain. She saw…

— Kate Chopin

“Edna felt depressed rather than soothed after leaving them. The little glimpse of domestic harmony which had been offered her, gave her…

— Kate Chopin

“She slept but a few hours. They were troubled and feverish hours, disturbed with dreams that were intangible, that eluded her, leaving…

— Kate Chopin

“Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life…

— Kate Chopin

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily…

— Kate Chopin

“At a very early period she had apprehended the instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life…

— Kate Chopin

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her…

— Kate Chopin