You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.
George EliotWhat is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.
George EliotThe first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.
George EliotThe 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.
George Eliot