Feelings Quotes by George Eliot

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

— George Eliot

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

— George Eliot

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

— George Eliot

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless…

— George Eliot

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

— George Eliot

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something…

— George Eliot

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make…

— George Eliot

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through…

— 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

A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive…

— George Eliot

Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds…

— George Eliot

I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts…

— George Eliot

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so…

— George Eliot

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its…

— George Eliot

When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever…

— George Eliot

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to…

— George Eliot

Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to…

— George Eliot

And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have…

— George Eliot

I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people…

— George Eliot

the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed…

— George Eliot

It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share…

— George Eliot

Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not…

— George Eliot

“It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feeling; but then, such feelings continually come across the ties…

— George Eliot

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct…

— George Eliot

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can…

— George Eliot

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a…

— George Eliot

Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually…

— George Eliot

I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be…

— George Eliot

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling…

— George Eliot

“When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any…

— George Eliot

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and…

— George Eliot