Suffering Quotes by George Eliot

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

— George Eliot

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we…

— George Eliot

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

— George Eliot

But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.

— George Eliot

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

— George Eliot

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and…

— 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

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

— George Eliot

... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I…

— George Eliot

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which…

— George Eliot

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.…

— George Eliot

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing…

— George Eliot

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt,…

— George Eliot

So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive…

— George Eliot

“Poor child! it was very early for her to know one of those supreme moments in life when all we have hoped…

— George Eliot

Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours…

— George Eliot

How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root…

— 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

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

— George Eliot

“For then, the very hardship, and the sorrow, and the blindness, and the sin I have beheld and been ready to weep…

— 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

“It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling if we won nothing but our old selves at…

— George Eliot

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to…

— George Eliot

They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a…

— George Eliot

“My spirit is too weak; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship…

— George Eliot

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness…

— 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

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and…

— George Eliot

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have…

— George Eliot

“For continual suffering had annihilated religious faith within me: to the utterly miserable –the unloving and the unloved –there is no religion…

— George Eliot

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something…

— 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