She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience. Stefan Zweig
About This Quote

In this quote, the author talks about a woman who is in her late 20s and who is questioning her life. She describes the day that her husband left her for another woman. This woman says that she never felt in love with her husband and in fact, hated him. He just happened to be the man that she married.

She says that he used to come home at night all sweaty and smelling of dirty laundry, but she just assumed it was because he spent all day working out in the yard. She says that he also had an eye twitch when they got intimate, but she ignored it because she thought it was just fear of intimacy. After all, she didn't love him so why would he want anything to do with her? Her husband eventually left for another woman and she was devastated.

Source: The Burning Secret And Other Stories

Some Similar Quotes
  1. Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you. - Jonathan Safran Foer
  2. The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't... - Ted Hughes
  3. Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying, ”... - Richard Siken
  4. They send a person who can never stay, " she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They send me a hero I can't help. . just the sort of person I can't help falling in love... - Rick Riordan
  5. I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,... - Jonathan Safran Foer
More Quotes By Stefan Zweig
  1. The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.
  2. Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
  3. Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his platonic nights of love. Books had power over him; money never did. Great collectors, including the founder of a collection in Princeton University Library,...
  4. Consciously or unconsciously, our education renders us slaves to morals, religion and a perceived vision of the world; our breath is the air of the epoch in which we live.
  5. But you smiled at me and said consolingly, "People come back again."" Yes" I said, "they come back, but then they have forgotten". There must have been something odd, something passionate in the way I said that to you. For you rose to your feet...
Related Topics