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Death Quotes by George Eliot

38 Death quotes by George Eliot

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Death is called the only physician that can cure the wear of age. It is also called a great reconciler that reveals our harshness and forces us to face the truth when life’s pretenses fall away. The quotes remind us that ignorance and disappointment bring us closer to that inevitable end.

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In every parting there is an image of death.

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All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

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

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

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

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

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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure…

“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells…

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial…

“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt…