Jane Austen Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

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

  Jane Austen

  Clever, Women, Joy

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

• When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

  Jane Austen

  Night, People, Sorrow

  Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.328, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Sorrow, Admitting

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.4, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

  Jane Austen

  Sorrow, Employment, May

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.305, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

  Jane Austen

  Grief, Sorrow, World

  Jesse Zuba, Jane Austen (2009). “Persuasion - Jane Austen”, p.150, Infobase Publishing

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin