Deeper Quote by Edith Wharton

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit…

— Doris Lessing

Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to…

— Nella Larsen

...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought…

— Kristin Cashore

Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent…

— Sigrid Undset

She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end.…

— Steven Galloway

She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been…

— Sarah Dunn

The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those…

— Shirley Hazzard

He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else,…

— Michael Cunningham

She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Her eyes, though tired, had the glint of one who never stopped expecting to be amused, and her mouth turned up at the corners…

— Kate Morton

She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.

— Colm Toibin