"When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity."
― George Eliot
Topic(s):
Death
― George Eliot
More From George Eliot
- "In every parting there is an image of death."
- "It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."
- "All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other."
More In Death
- "I don’t like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me."― Paula Cole
- "Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."― Alfred Adler
- "Hell, madam, is to love no longer."― Georges Bernanos