213 Quotes About Henry-james

She was too young, too impatient to live, too unacquainted with pain.

What had come to pass within his walls lingered there as an obsession importunate to all his senses; it lived again, as a cluster of pleasant memories, at every hour and in every object; it made everything but itself irrelevant and tasteless. It remained, in a word, a conscious watchful presence, active on its own side, forever to be reckoned with, in face of which the effort at detachment was scarcely less futile than frivolous.

She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more - this idea was as sweet as a vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land. She had moments in her journey from Rome which were almost as good as being dead. She sat in her corner, so motionless, so passive, simply with the sense of being carried, so detached from hope and regret . . .

Your desire is to escape everything?""Everything.

But my impression dates from the very first hour we met. I lost no time, I fell in love with you then. It was at first sight, as the novels say; I know now that's not a fancy-phrase, and I shall think better of novels for evermore.

An unknown man in a lonely place is a permitted object of fear to a young woman privately bred.

I'll marry you, mind you, in an hour.""As we were?""As we were."But she turned to the door, and her headshake was now the end. "We shall never be again as we were!

I'm a survivor—a survivor of a general wreck . . . everyone else has gone . . . I'm all that's left.

He should see nothing, he should learn nothing; for him she would always wear a mask.