George Eliot Quotes About Failing
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There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.
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It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey.
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