Quote

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

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
World
Half
Ruins
Moment
Shut
Sense
Separate
Moments
Apart
Together
Destiny
Overcame
Wells
Waste
Destinies
Might
Close
Chained
Well
Safe
Ruin

More quotes by Edith Wharton

Image
[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.
Edith Wharton
Image
It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
Edith Wharton
Image
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton
Image
One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
Edith Wharton
Image
... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.
Edith Wharton
Image
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Edith Wharton
Image
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
Edith Wharton
Image
Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.
Edith Wharton
Image
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.
Edith Wharton
Image
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
Edith Wharton
Image
The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.
Edith Wharton
Image
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.
Edith Wharton
Image
It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family.
Edith Wharton
Image
It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now
Edith Wharton
Image
Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.
Edith Wharton
Image
Life is always either a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.
Edith Wharton
Image
She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
Edith Wharton
Image
We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.
Edith Wharton
Image
But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer
Edith Wharton
Image
Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.
Edith Wharton