Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.
People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.
If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!
cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.
Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.
Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.
The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.
A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.
It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.
youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!
A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?
