Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin -
The Awakening (1899)
63 Sourced Quotes
View all Kate Chopin Quotes
Source
Report...
She reminded him of some beautiful, sleek animal waking up in the sun.
Kate Chopin
Source
Report...
She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women.
Kate Chopin
Source
Report...
I'm tired," she uttered complainingly. "I know you are." "You don't know anything about it. Why should you know? I never was so exhausted in my life. But it isn't unpleasant. A thousand emotions have swept through me to-night. I don't comprehend half on them. Don't mind what I'm saying; I am just thinking aloud.
Kate Chopin
Source
Report...
She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.
Kate Chopin
Source
Report...
The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.
Kate Chopin
Source
Report...
She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle — a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.
Kate Chopin
Source
Report...
Looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage.
Kate Chopin
Source
Report...
The bird that would soar above the plane of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.
Kate Chopin
Source
Report...
She had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.
Kate Chopin
Source
Report...
I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much—so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.
Kate Chopin
Source
Report...
The years that are gone seem like dreams -if one might go on sleeping and dreaming- but to wake up and find -oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all ones life.
Kate Chopin
Source
Report...
An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her with a vague anguish... like a shadow... a mist passing across her soul's summer day.
Kate Chopin
Source
Report...
And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.
Kate Chopin
1
2
3
Quote of the day
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Lady Randolph Churchill
Kate Chopin
Creative Commons
Born:
February 8, 1850
Died:
August 22, 1904
(aged 54)
More about Kate Chopin...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes