What did Edith Wharton mean by: Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death. Edith Wharton Novelist · United Copy
+ True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Creativity, Originality, Vision, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Evidence, Impulses, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ And you’ll sit beside me, and we’ll look, not at visions, but at realities. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Companionship, Perception, Reality, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Challenge, Preference, Risk, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Focus, Form, Impact, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Depth, Emotion, Exploration, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness. Author, August 20, 2023January 2, 2025, Edith Wharton, Hope, Optimism, Resilience, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. Author, December 14, 2023December 29, 2024, Edith Wharton, Distraction, Mindset, Wealth, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
