“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 Eliot300
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.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
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.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.”
Mario Vargas Llosa book The Bad Girl
Source: Travesuras de la niña mala
“The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”
Nalo Hopkinson book Brown Girl in the Ring
Source: Brown Girl in the Ring
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Castilian Nuptuals from The London Literary Gazette (28th September 1822) Poetical Sketches. 3rd series - Sketch the Fourth
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
