"He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime."

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"He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime."

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"The lonely become either thoughtful or empty."

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"Even cats grow lonely and anxious."

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"Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there."

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Explore more quotes by Edith Wharton

"Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there."

Gratitude

"Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend!"

Truth

"How much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast?"

Emotion

"The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears."

Wonder

"High PastureCome up--come up: in the dim vale belowThe autumn mist muffles the fading trees,But on this keen hill-pasture, though the breezeHas stretched the thwart boughs bare to meet the snow,Night is not, autumn is not--but the flowOf vast, ethereal and irradiate seas,Poured from the far world's flaming boundariesIn waxing tides of unimagined glow.And to that height illumined of the mindhe calls us still by the familiar way,Leaving the sodden tracks of life behind,Befogged in failure, chilled with love's decay--Showing us, as the night-mists upward wind,How on the heights is day and still more day."

Nature

"I have tried hard - but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was no use anywhere else. What can one do when one finds out that one only fits into one hole? One must go back to it or be thrown out into the rubbish heap - and you don't know what it's like in the rubbish heap!"

Self

"She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others."

Home

"A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature."

Behavior

"What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out."

People

"I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story."

Time