Quotes About Miss Havisham In Great Expectations

#1. It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness);

Aristotle.

#2. I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever.
But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#3. When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

Ella Maillart

#4. There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!

John Hancock

#5. Would it be weakness to return my love?

Charles Dickens

#6. The day of fire is coming, the thrush
will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket ...

Anne Sexton

#7. Verity, you have a choice," he said gently. "We eat, we talk, we pass the evening with an attempt at civility. Or we fuck. It's up to you.

Anna Campbell

#8. That's all the difficulty and the challenge and the battle: to look through this mechanical thing, these bits of glass and metal, at someone. And not lose the sense that this shape is a human being.

Eva Rubinstein

#9. I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician.

Tony Williams

#10. Specialization is the great evil of civilization.

Wendell Berry

#11. In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

Charles Dickens