Don’t they always go from bad to worse? There’s no turning back–yourold self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart
– Edith Wharton
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- Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one’s self? – Edith Wharton
- What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I’m convinced it all turns on that. – Edith Wharton
- The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears. – Edith Wharton
- ..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune. – Edith Wharton
- The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! – Edith Wharton
- The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches – Edith Wharton
- Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life. – Edith Wharton
- The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic – Edith Wharton
- A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. – Edith Wharton
- The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future. – Edith Wharton
- They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity. – Edith Wharton
- I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they’re about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton. – Edith Wharton
- One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are. – Edith Wharton
- The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done. – Edith Wharton
- Don’t you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can? – Edith Wharton
- Ah, don’t let us undo what you’ve done!’ she cried. ‘I can’t go back now to that other way of thinking. I can’t love you unless I give you up. – Edith Wharton
- I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you’re sick and when you’re lonesome. – Edith Wharton
- Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience… – Edith Wharton
- What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest. – Edith Wharton
- In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. -“ Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay – John Taliaferro
- …how much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast? – Edith Wharton
- It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country. – Edith Wharton
- …life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know. – Edith Wharton
- Oh, Gerty, I wasn’t meant to be good. – Edith Wharton
- It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes. – Edith Wharton
- Revenge is like politics, one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst. – Jonas Jonasson
- We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. – Billy Graham
- The feeling of ‘turning into your dad’ is nothing compared to the realisation that your son is turning into you. – Andy Graham
- Conversion is the lifelong process of turning away from our plans and turning toward God’s maddening, disruptive, creativity. – M Craig Barnes
- The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it. – Giordano Bruno
- Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most. – David Nicholls
- You are having a bad day? Remember it could always be worse… It could be me having a bad day! – Mark W Boyer
- He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one’s eyes, and does not look at him. – Oscar Wilde
- Try staying awake for 24 hours and you’ll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out. – Joyce Rachelle
- When one door shuts… sometimes it’s best to leave it shut, and move on… – Scott Joffe
- The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- And yes, when he kisses you, the rest of the world disappears and your brain shuts off and all you can feel are his lips and nothing else matters. – Jess Rothenberg
- Sleeping was her latest discovery. ‘It’s so wonderful. One simply shuts one’s eyes, that’s all. It’s so delicious. – Katherine Mansfield
- When intelligence shuts a door, wisdom opens a window. – Matshona Dhliwayo