Quote

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

Edith Wharton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edith Wharton
Age: 75 †
Born: 1862
Born: January 24
Died: 1937
Died: August 11
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
New York City
New York
Edith Newbold Jones
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Eye
Warm
Hands
Miracle
Thankfully
Stills
Ears
Feds
Still
Memories
Wood
Every
Fire
Dry
Years
Eyes
Visible
World
Year
Woods
Though
Daily

More quotes by Edith Wharton

Image
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Edith Wharton
Image
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
Edith Wharton
Image
They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.
Edith Wharton
Image
[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.
Edith Wharton
Image
People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.
Edith Wharton
Image
He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.
Edith Wharton
Image
The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.
Edith Wharton
Image
It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.
Edith Wharton
Image
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
Edith Wharton
Image
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.
Edith Wharton
Image
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
Image
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
Edith Wharton
Image
And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.
Edith Wharton
Image
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Edith Wharton
Image
there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.
Edith Wharton
Image
I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.
Edith Wharton
Image
Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.
Edith Wharton
Image
... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it only through theprison bars of illness and suffering! Plus je vois, the more I am thrilled by the spectacle.
Edith Wharton
Image
What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.
Edith Wharton
Image
But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer
Edith Wharton