226 Quotes by Kate Chopin

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

So the storm passed and every one was happy.

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.