Soul Quotes by George Eliot

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

— George Eliot

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

— George Eliot

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

— George Eliot

“There comes a moment when the soul must have no guide but the voice within it.”

— George Eliot

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

— George Eliot

“The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentleman whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.”

— George Eliot

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

— George Eliot

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

“To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.”

— George Eliot

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking…

— George Eliot

I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter…

— 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

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

There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny…

— George Eliot

Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in…

— George Eliot

“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which…

— George Eliot

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's…

— George Eliot

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of…

— George Eliot

“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very…

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it…

— George Eliot

... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy…

— 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

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

— George Eliot

Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man…

— 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 gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which…

— George Eliot

There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have…

— George Eliot

“It is an old story, that men sell themselves to the tempter, and sign a bond with their blood, because it is…

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

“To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.”

— George Eliot

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as…

— George Eliot

For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness…

— George Eliot

The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see…

— George Eliot

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a…

— George Eliot

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and…

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine…

— George Eliot

Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their…

— George Eliot