Kate Chopin Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• 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 artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

  Kate Chopin

  Artist, Soul, Courageous

  1899 The Awakening, ch.39.

• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

  Kate Chopin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

• 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

• She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

  Kate Chopin

  Delirium Tremens, Soul, Contentment

  Kate Chopin (2016). “THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South”, p.72, e-artnow

• 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.

• To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

  Kate Chopin

  Artist, Effort, Soul

  Kate Chopin (2014). “The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

• 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

• In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight - perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.

  Kate Chopin

  Eight, Soul, Twenties

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

• I dance with people I despise; amuse myself with men whose only talent lies in their feet, gain the disapprobation of people I honor and respect; return home at day break with my brain in a state which was never intended for it; and arise in the middle of the next day feeling infinitely more, in spirit and flesh like a Liliputian, than a woman with body and soul. Entry (when she was eighteen) in her Commonplace Book, 1868-1869.

  Kate Chopin

  Lying, Book, Home

  Kate Chopin, Per Seyersted, Emily Toth (1979). “A Kate Chopin miscellany”, Northwestern State Univ

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