Kate Chopin Quotes About Awakening

Quotes about: Awakening

• Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

  Kate Chopin

  Suffering, Wake Up, Awakening

  The Awakening ch. 38 (1899)

• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

  Kate Chopin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

  Kate Chopin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

• The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.

  Kate Chopin

  Summer, Mother, Husband

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.19

• He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

  Kate Chopin

  Self, World, Awakening

  1899 The Awakening, ch.19.

• but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

  Kate Chopin

  Inspirational Life, Awakening, Awakened

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.208

• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

  Kate Chopin

  Tangled, Soul, Murmuring

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.34

• The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.

  Kate Chopin

  Sea, Voice, Seductive

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.300

• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

  Kate Chopin

  Sea, Voice, Seductive

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

• The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.

  Kate Chopin

  Past, Lessons, Awakening

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.116

• Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

  Kate Chopin

  Children, Inward, Awakening

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.35

• A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

  Kate Chopin

  Light, Dawn, Awakening

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.33

• one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul

  Kate Chopin

  Dream, Reality, Soul

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.81

• You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.

  Kate Chopin

  Dream, Boys, Impossible Things

  "The Awakening". Book by Kate Chopin, 1899.

• I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

  Kate Chopin

  Children, Giving Up, Awakening

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.122

• A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

  Kate Chopin

  Air, Wings, Broken

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.155, Kate Chopin

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