Edith Wharton Quotes

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.

I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.

Young people live exactly today... and they live in the immediacy of their world. And it's important for us, people from older generations to realize that a lot of our values, a lot of our truths are no longer truths, are no longer valuable.

Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to."

I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.

He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.

Everything that creative people think and do is from the heart.

The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind, And after set your heart to beat, Not what's behind." "But lest you are my enemy, I must enquire." "O no, my dear, let all that be, What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?"

I'm tired of people not treating me like the gift that I am.

How I waited for you! How I longed for you! he stammered. "I thought of you all the time. I saw you all the time. Your smile was everywhere." He lowered his voice and added, "Sometimes when people were talking commonplaces and your name happened to be mentioned, It would go through my heart like an electric current.

Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

Rich people expect to succeed.

Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!

You young people with your twittering and your creating of content. Or what is it - queefing? I don't know what you young people are calling it.

We have such a knee-jerk reaction to our young people, not recognizing our young people carry the torch. We condemn them for their hats worn a certain way or their hoodie worn a certain way, or their pants sagging a certain way, but the reality is, we need to meet them where they stand. We need to arm them with what they need to fight, and then we need to get the hell out the way and let them lead. That is something that is not happening in our communities.

I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.

God send everyone their heart's desire!

A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.

You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

Hope is a passion for the possible.

Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.