The Age of Innocence Quotes

“He was weary of living in a perpetual tepid honeymoon, without the temperature of passion yet with all its exactions.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:passion marriage

“Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:loneliness

“After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money—both useful things in their way ...”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:marriage money

“He felt, no doubt, more sorry for her than her indignant relatives; but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“I'm of your making much more than you ever were of mine. I'm the man who married one woman because another one told him to.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:marriage obedience

“He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:memory

“But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:darkness light

“A lie by day, a lie by night, a lie in every touch and every look; a lie in every caress and every quarrel; a lie in every word and in every silence.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:silence lie

“It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:eyes

“What others? I don't profess to be different from my kind. I'm consumed by the same wants and the same longings.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:difference want

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