Life Quotes by George Eliot

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

— George Eliot

But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?

— George Eliot

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

— George Eliot

“I should see how it was possible to lead a grand life here—now—in England.”

— George Eliot

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.

— George Eliot

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

— George Eliot

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

— George Eliot

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

— George Eliot

“For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.”

— George Eliot

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life…

— George Eliot

“sacred is the task of the artist when he undertakes to paint the life of the People. Falsification here is far more…

— George Eliot

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his…

— George Eliot

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should…

— George Eliot

Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and…

— George Eliot

Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances,…

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Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

— George Eliot

Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself…

— 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

“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you…

— George Eliot

“Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life— the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within…

— George Eliot

“We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a…

— 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

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

— George Eliot

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is…

— George Eliot

“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of…

— George Eliot

“Joy and peace are not resignation: resignation is the willing endurance of a pain that is not allayed – that you don’t…

— George Eliot

“God help the lad, and me too,” he thought, as he lifted the board. “We’re like enough to find life a tough…

— George Eliot

These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify…

— George Eliot

“I had a terror of the world. None knew me; all would mistake me. I had seen so many in my life…

— George Eliot

In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together;…

— George Eliot

When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness…

— George Eliot

“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar…

— George Eliot

“She could make dream-worlds of her own – but no dream-world would satisfy her now. She wanted some explanation of this hard,…

— 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

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

— 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

“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual…

— George Eliot

“They were very bitter tears: everybody in the world seemed so hard and unkind to Maggie: there was no indulgence, no fondness,…

— George Eliot

“There were intervals in which she could sit perfectly still, enjoying the outer stillness and the subdued light. The red fire with…

— George Eliot

“She locked herself in her room. She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life, before she…

— George Eliot