Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mother, Hate, Agony

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1093, Delphi Classics

• I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Childhood, Sorrow, Age

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1619, BookCaps Study Guides

• Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in him to have taken pleasure in the idea that his great love might come in to comfort and console her; much the same kind of strange passionate pleasure which comes stinging through a mother's heart, when her drooping infant nestles close to her, and is dependent upon her for everything.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mother, Taken, Heart

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1150, Delphi Classics

• She freshens me up above a bit. Who'd ha thought that face - as bright and as strong as the angel I dream of - could have known the sorrow she speaks on? I wonder how she'll sin. All on us must sing.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Dream, Strong, Angel

• How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Smart, Party, Sorrow

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1043, Delphi Classics

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