Edith Wharton Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

  Edith Wharton

  Silence, Literature, May

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1366, Delphi Classics

• He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.

  Edith Wharton

  Silence, Bed, Lasts

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.732, Delphi Classics

• 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

• She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

  Edith Wharton

  Communication, Archer, Eye

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.231, Courier Corporation

• He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.

  Edith Wharton

  Loneliness, Winter, Profound

  Ethan Frome preface (1911)

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