It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything! — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I should see how it was possible to lead a grand life here—now—in England.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“And there is no better reason for preferring this elderberry bush than that it stirs an early memory, that it is no… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A bride and bridegroom, surrounded by all the appliances of wealth, hurried through the day by the whirl of society, filling their… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Because, dear, trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I had a terror of the world. None knew me; all would mistake me. I had seen so many in my life… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Joy and peace are not resignation: resignation is the willing endurance of a pain that is not allayed – that you don’t… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” — George Eliot Copy Share
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share
