“Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.”
Source: Adam Bede
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George Eliot 300
English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880Related quotes
“What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.”
Hymn to Adversity http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=otad, St. 2 (1742)
“The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart… converted it into a tomb.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.”
Source: Travesuras de la niña mala
“The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”
Source: Brown Girl in the Ring
The Castilian Nuptuals from The London Literary Gazette (28th September 1822) Poetical Sketches. 3rd series - Sketch the Fourth
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
