Dissatisfaction Quote by Kate Chopin

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

— Kate Chopin

“She was tranquil, but it was with the quietness of exhausted grief, not of resignation; and she looked back upon the past, and awaited…

— Ann Radcliffe

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“...her melancholy mood had followed her home. It clung to her like perfume, filling the rooms she visited with the scent of loss. Surely…

— Elise K. Ackers

“She hadn’t understood loss until it had laid her to waste, and she feared what would become of her when she was again without…

— Molly Collier

“She hadn’t thought anything could squeeze past the pain in her head, the ache in her stomach, the sizzle of shame in her blood.…

— Nora Roberts

“She was no longer wresting with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in…

— George Eliot

“It seemed to cast a spell on her as all her earlier despair disappeared and as she went back inside she was filled with…

— Anne Allen

“She had got beyond despair.”

— Michael McDowell

“There was no escape for her. No relief. She had exhausted all possibilities and all her hope was gone, washed away...”

— Tonya Hurley

“It seemed to her that she had never known what the night was like before. Up till now it had been dark, silent, beautiful…

— Katherine Mansfield

“She thought her world had stopped falling apart, but she was wrong. It had simply become isolated, her focus narrowed to struggling not to…

— Lorraine Heath