Quotes About The Awakening By Kate Chopin

#1. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, and The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty.

Cheryl Strayed

#2. How long will you be gone?"
"Forever, perhaps. I don't know. It depends upon a good many things.

Kate Chopin

#3. Time doesn't concern me.

Kate Chopin

#4. Pirate gold isn't a thing to be hoarded or utilized. It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly.

Kate Chopin

#5. I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood.

Kate Chopin

#6. REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. The morning was full of sunlight and hope.

Kate Chopin

#8. She put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades to see if my wings were strong.

Kate Chopin

#9. I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor to the right is Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening', which is dispiriting. That's a book I don't want to re-read.

Susan Choi

#10. She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.

Kate Chopin

#11. The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

Nikolai Gogol

#12. Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.

Thomas Lansing Masson

#13. She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day.

Kate Chopin

#14. God is the explanation of all things.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#15. When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

John F. Kerry

#16. She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.

Kate Chopin

#17. If you're 35 and single and it's a choice, it feels fine. So I didn't settle with the wrong person yet. Big deal!

Drew Barrymore

#18. She had resolved to never take another step backward.

Kate Chopin

#19. Laugh because that is the purest sound.

Hafez

#20. Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Alexander Pope

#21. Good night. I adore you. Sleep well.

Kate Chopin

#22. I learned you must always accept love when it's offered, always give it when it's needed. There might not be a second chance. And I know, too, that until your heart's been broken, you never know the full beauty of love.

Nora Roberts

#23. Mathematics is not a careful march down a well cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.

Amir D. Aczel

#24. Don't stir all the warmth out of your coffee; drink it.

Kate Chopin

#25. She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.

Kate Chopin

#26. All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

Robert Altman

#27. Gravity is why there are suns and planets in the first place. It is practically God.

Mary Roach

#28. Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again, idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided.

Kate Chopin

#29. Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others.

David Boaz

#30. I am relentlessly determine to be occupied with Jesus Christ and His Glorious Gospel and nothing else.

John Paul Warren

#31. Mrs. Pontellier gave over being astonished, and concluded that wonders would never cease.

Kate Chopin