Demand Quote by George Eliot

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Losing his temper was a luxury he rarely permitted himself, but for the past week he'd been invaded by a sullen gloom that weighted…

— Lisa Kleypas

“If she had been born a hundred years later, she would very likely have been encouraged to be angry, told she had a right…

— Elisabeth Elliot

Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most…

— William Butler Yeats

There was a whole army of people who seemed not to have anything better to do than to try to disrupt her life, and…

— Anonymous

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

— Jane Austen

She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in love with…

— Thrity Umrigar

“In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia”

— Jane Austen

Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people…

— Paulo Coelho