226 Quotes by Kate Chopin

A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon everyone as they saw the pianist enter.

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.

It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.

Beside being a respectable woman she was a very sensible one; and she knew there are some battles in life which a human being must fight alone.

She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.

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

She had resolved to never take another step backward.

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

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