Grief Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

8 Grief quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

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Gaskell’s keen eye for everyday life brings a tender realism to the pain of loss. These eight passages blend her narrative grace with heartfelt empathy, giving a modest yet resonant glimpse into how sorrow shapes ordinary moments.

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“Looking back upon the year's accumulated heap of troubles, Margaret wondered how they had been borne. If she could have anticipated them,…

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“If she could have anticipated them, how she would have shrunk away and hid herself from the coming time! And yet day…

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But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's…

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“Oh! sad is the night-time, The night-time of sorrow, When through the deep gloom, we catch but the boom Of the waves…

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My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches…

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“Of all the trite, worn-out, hollow mockeries of comfort that were ever uttered by people who will not take the trouble of…

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“There are stages in the contemplation and endurance of great sorrow, which endow men with the same earnestness and clearness of thought…

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Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in…

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Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that…

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But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown…

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“And besides, in the matter of friendship, I have observed that the disappointment here arises chiefly, not from liking our friends too well, or…

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What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it…

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“The first question sobbed out by his choking voice, oppressed with emotion, was-- "Where is she?" They led him to the room where his…

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Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view…

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No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.

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I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

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Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head." "Entering her heart…

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“He never looked at her; and yet, the careful avoidance of his eyes betokened that in some way he knew exactly where, if they…

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“Ay! but mother's words are scarce, and weigh heavy. Father's liker me, and we talk a deal o' rubble; but mother's words are liker…

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Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character,…

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Don’t be afraid,” she said, coldly, “ as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a…

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