Filled Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Filled Grief Heart Misery People Rooms Sorrow
She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Human misery was the trough from which she now fed herself and she felt more comfortable in the presence of other unlucky people. It… — Andrew Neiderman Copy Share Image
“What is this all about,' asked Sai, but her mouth couldn't address her ear in the tumult; her mind couldn't talk to her heart.… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom. It beat with odd little jerks; her hands were cold,… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“She’d ended her life as she’d lived it: a life without compassion, kindness, or consideration to others. Her parting had now suffered the same… — Peppi Hilton Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The purpose of a spirit filled life is to demonstrate the supernatural power of our living God so that the unsaved multitudes will abandon… — T.L. Osborn Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always read. He… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged by eyes… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify it, the… — Christoffer Boe Copy Share Image
I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that… — Laozi Copy Share Image
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