“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Poor child! it was very early for her to know one of those supreme moments in life when all we have hoped… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“He seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection. Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacing are swung--are scarcely perceptible; momentary touches of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling if we won nothing but our old selves at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Romanticism, which has helped to fill some dull blanks with love and knowledge, had not yet penetrated the times with its leaven… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I am not at all sure that the majority of the human race have not been ugly, and even among those "lords… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feeling; but then, such feelings continually come across the ties… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” — George Eliot Copy Share
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share
