The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

- George Gissing

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by …

- George Gissing

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

- George Gissing

Have the courage of your desire.

- George Gissing

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

- George Gissing

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering…

- George Gissing

Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

- George Gissing

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

- George Gissing

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

- George Gissing