Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.

Elizabeth Gaskell

• Tired
• My Life
• Creature
• Victims

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• I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Tired
  • My Life
  • Creature