“Just a month from this day, on the twentieth of September, 1850, I shall be sitting in this chair, in this study, at ten o' clock at night, longing to die, weary of incessant insight and foresight, without delusions and without hope.”

George Eliot

George Eliot - “Just a month from this day, on the...” 1

Similar quotes

“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”

Thomas A. Edison
Read more

“When you leave,weary of me,without a word I shall gently let you go.”

Kim Sowol
Read more

“Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death?”

Sorin Cerin
Read more

“If in large part we were concerned only with making it through another day without getting laid off, there was a smaller part just hoping to leave for the night without contributing to someone’s lifetime of hurt.”

Joshua Ferris
Read more

“Some days, I listen to that clock ticking in the hallway. Then I think of all the ticks, all the minutes, all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without you. And I can’t breathe then, like someone’s stepping on my heart. I get so weak. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.”

Khaled Hosseini
Read more