Quote by George Eliot
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, b

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. – George Eliot

Category:
Vacations
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We must not inquire too curiously into motives… They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. – George Eliot

Category:
Curiosity
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Other Quotes from
Death
category

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations – ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies – were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. – Tom Robbins

Category:
Death

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. Its a death trap. – Anthony Hopkins

Category:
Death

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important. – Bill Shankly

Category:
Death

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony. – Jack Kevorkian

Category:
Death

Random Quotes

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. – John Burroughs

Category:
Philosophical

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say. – Jennifer Capriati

Category:
respect

Under every full moon, a woolgathering world idles. – Lorraine Skylark

Category:
Daydreaming

I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I dont think that was love. I think as Im getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe Ill experience it. At the moment, I dont know, exactly, if Ive been in love. – Selena Gomez

Category:
Experience