A Quote by George Eliot

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

George Eliot

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Affection Anguish Atone Dead Gave Never Our Them Thought

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George Eliot
British - Novelist
November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880

O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!

George Eliot

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Marcel Proust

Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.

Helen Keller

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.

George Eliot

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

George Eliot

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

Simone Weil

The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.

Richard Sibbes

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

Benjamin Disraeli

Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul.

Deepak Chopra

I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway.

David Hockney

We pray with our hands and often communicate with them. We use them to eat, work, and make love. We employ them as marvelously sophisticated instruments of flexibility and strength, and when they are damaged, we anguish.

Keith L. Moore

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mozart resolved his emotions on a level that transformed them into moods uncontaminated by mortal anguish, enabling him to express the angelic anguish that is so peculiarly his own.

Yehudi Menuhin

It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for ever since has His name been breathed in morning and evening prayers that none can count, and has brought down some gift of sanctity and peace on the anguish of bereavement, and the remorse of sin.