George Eliot Quote

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope.


Adam Bede (1859)


There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have...

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have...

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have...

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have...