All GEORGE ELIOT Quotes about “Grief”

“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”
“Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual lifeâ”€â”€the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose withinâ”€â”€can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.”
“We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.”
“I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.”
“It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.”
“The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning -- a new acquaintance with grief.”

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