Heart Quotes by George Eliot

“While the heart beats, bruise it--it is your only opportunity”

— George Eliot

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

— George Eliot

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

— George Eliot

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

— George Eliot

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

— George Eliot

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

— George Eliot

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

— George Eliot

“Mrs. Deane was a thin-lipped woman, who made small well-considered speeches on peculiar occasions, repeating them afterwards to her husband, and asking…

— George Eliot

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

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated…

— George Eliot

“[She] looked as if her nerves were quivering with the expectation that something would be thrown at her. But she never had…

— George Eliot

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

— George Eliot

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine…

— 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

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her…

— George Eliot

She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants…

— George Eliot

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped…

— George Eliot

“That plain, middle-aged face, with a grave penetrating kindness in it, seeming to tell of a human being who had reached a…

— George Eliot

“From what you know of her, you will not be surprised that she threw some exaggeration and wilfulness, some pride and impetuosity,…

— George Eliot

Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us…

— 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 we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think…

— George Eliot

“She would have been obliged to allow, if any one had said it to her, that what she submitted to could not…

— George Eliot

The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and…

— George Eliot

It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always…

— George Eliot

The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of…

— George Eliot

Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance,…

— 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

Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest…

— George Eliot

“The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent,…

— George Eliot

“and she rarely forgot that while her grammar and accent were above the town standard, she wore a plain cap, cooked the…

— George Eliot

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier…

— George Eliot

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces…

— George Eliot

“Dorothea, he said to himself, was for ever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool...”

— George Eliot

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and…

— George Eliot

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

— George Eliot

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

— George Eliot

“Esther always avoided asking questions of Lydley, who found an answer as she found a key, by pouring out a pocketful of…

— George Eliot

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow…

— George Eliot