Death Quotes by George Eliot

In every parting there is an image of death.

— George Eliot

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

— George Eliot

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

— George Eliot

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

— George Eliot

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

— George Eliot

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

— George Eliot

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

— George Eliot

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering…

— George Eliot

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder…

— George Eliot

“Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.”

— George Eliot

“the involuntary loss of any familiar object almost always brings a chill as from an evil omen; it seems to be the…

— George Eliot

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

— George Eliot

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might…

— George Eliot

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

— George Eliot

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music…

— George Eliot

“The most obstinate beliefs that mortals entertain about themselves are such as they have no evidence for beyond a constant, spontaneous pulsing…

— George Eliot

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous…

— George Eliot

“Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample on the dead to…

— George Eliot

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to…

— George Eliot

“It was too intolerable that Dorothea should be worshiping this husband: such weakness in a woman is pleasant to no man but…

— George Eliot

“My spirit is too weak; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship…

— George Eliot

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale…

— George Eliot

“When the commonplace "We must all die" transforms itself suddenly into the acute consciousness "I must die-- and soon," then death grapples…

— George Eliot

Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one…

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Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure…

— George Eliot

One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in…

— George Eliot

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to…

— George Eliot

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them…

— George Eliot

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

— George Eliot

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as…

— George Eliot

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we…

— George Eliot

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble…

— George Eliot

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would…

— George Eliot

“In the midst of life we are in death” — how the present moment is all we can call our own for…

— George Eliot

The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died…

— George Eliot

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial…

— George Eliot

“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in…

— George Eliot

“Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness.…

— George Eliot