Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell Download Open image ““The meanest thing to which we bid adieu, Loses its meanness in the parting hour.”” — Elizabeth Gaskell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“And what of those losses that seem unbearable? Separations from people we feel we can't live without?' 'Perhaps our ruin honours the strength of… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
“In every parting there comes a moment when the beloved is already no longer with us.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Whenever there is a meeting, a parting shall follow. But that parting needs not last forever. Whether a parting be forever or merely for… — Happy Mask Salesman Copy Share Image
“And perhaps some will never understand, It is mostly the farewells that unite us, and last in our memory forever, Even more than the… — Mimi Novic Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when we lose something of importance what we have left becomes even more precious.” — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
“The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“But experience is less likely to teach us how to bid our dearest possessions adieu. And if we were to? We wouldn't welcome the… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Then most our trouble still when most admired, And still the more we give, the more required; Whose fame with pains we guard, but… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“At times, we are the bridge that allows another to re-enter the world after a loss. Don't mistake it for more or its beauty… — Danielle Pierre Copy Share Image
“He who best discerns the worth of time is most distressed whenever time is lost.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“There should have been a better farewell. But in the end, there never is. And we take what meagre scraps we can find.” — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Osborne and Roger knowing that the wife of the former was a Frenchwoman, and, conscious of each other's knowledge, felt doubly awkward; while Molly… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“And besides, in the matter of friendship, I have observed that the disappointment here arises chiefly, not from liking our friends too well, or… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“The first question sobbed out by his choking voice, oppressed with emotion, was-- "Where is she?" They led him to the room where his… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“He never looked at her; and yet, the careful avoidance of his eyes betokened that in some way he knew exactly where, if they… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
