Edith Wharton Quotes About Darkness

Quotes about: Darkness

• It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

  Edith Wharton

  Darkness, Sunrise, Harder

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.145, VM eBooks

• What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

  Edith Wharton

  Compassion, Silence, Darkness

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.134, VM eBooks

• I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.

  Edith Wharton

  Lonely, Children, Night

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.136, Xist Publishing

• “Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears,” he said. “Well, she opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say that she blinds people. What she does is just the contrary — she fastens their eyelids open, so that they're never again in the blessed darkness.”

  Edith Wharton

  Blessed, Eye, People

  "Literary Love: 5 Wild and Wanton Classics".

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