Quotes from Eugenie de Guerin

The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.