Edith Wharton Quotes About Solitude

Quotes about: Solitude

• She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

  Edith Wharton

  Joy, Solitude, Taste

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.60, Xist Publishing

• 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

• Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them to feel a summer breeze on their faces, or to see the lights among the boughs reduplicated in the arch of a starry sky. The strange solitude about them was no stranger than the sweetness of being alone in it together.

  Edith Wharton

  Summer, Dream, Sky

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.641, Delphi Classics

• Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

  Edith Wharton

  Solitude, Littles, Noise

  Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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