Kate Chopin Quotes

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

It's so easy to get caught up in this weird life. This isn't normal and I'm not singing for people that live my life. I'm singing to the life I used to have. The life I want to have again.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

My first novel was called 'Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,' about the difficulties of graduating from college, the longing and mourning you feel when all your promise seems to float away.

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

California is a tragic country … like every Promised Land.

I should never have left Italy and Juve.

He missed his imagined future.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.

I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

My whole life has been one big broken promise.

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.