Apartment in Athens Quotes

“She liked to be near him now that she had thought of a way to prove to him that life had taught her to understand and love him.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“However, because death is the only absolute equality among human beings on earth, even the ignoblest and the most welcome instance of it deserves a little ceremonious thought.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“It was a good thing; and to admit that a good thing has derived from an evil thing is to bend the knee to evil to some extent.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“But, she fancied, she would not be able to be really unintelligent again, not even if she tried; so much having happened to her.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“She only knew that there was something she did not know.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“What sickened her was her own hatred, and weariness of being dominated and reminded and misled and disgusted and made a fool of by hatred.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“He thought himself stupid; the contemplation of grief always makes one stupid.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“Until that moment it had never seriously occurred to him that they were susceptible to the common suffering.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“He found himself falsely thinking that one could scarcely begrudge these people the mastery of the world; if they wanted it enough to pay the same price they exacted of others; if they were willing to bring the common suffering and irreparable loss upon themselves as everyone else.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“Also it is good to tell my trouble. It relieves my thinking about it, it passes the time, the deadly time.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“To be German is simply the way we live; it is a love of government and orderliness, for one thing, and confidence in ourselves and in each other.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“A foreigner naturally would misunderstand the old Hellenic quarrelsomeness, which was essentially democratic, he thought; and flatter himself that it could be taken advantage of.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“Killing aroused anger, sometimes caused despair, sometimes gave hope. This was death the charmer, the changer; a continuous factor in one's life, to which one yielded.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“If you forgive more than you can afford, you may find yourself impoverished in emotion afterward, with a lowered resistance to whatever happens after that.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“It was an event in his soul.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“The look he gave Helianos was one of perfect candor, a little unsure of himself, a little sentimental, seeming to hope that kindness would be repaid with kindness.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“What he minded was her general resentfulness and permanent mistrustfulness, now that things were going better.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“He was a naturally pacific, sociable man; he liked to think well of his fellow men, even an occupying German officer.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“Helianos wanted to accept everything as it appeared on the surface; at least to interpret everything as favorably as he could, as mere kindliness, a wonderful improvement and a great blessing.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“It is never too late for a little happiness even in the shadow of death;”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“The look in his eyes although it was only hatred was beautiful, like a flower upheld on a bent, spindling, breaking stem.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“All the disappointments of our life before the war were a fool's paradise.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

“Naturally they were not a happy family, but they had good hearts, and did their best to console each other in bereavement and impoverishment.”
― Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens