O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“My spirit is too weak; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“For continual suffering had annihilated religious faith within me: to the utterly miserable –the unloving and the unloved –there is no religion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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 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
“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar… — 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
“For then, the very hardship, and the sorrow, and the blindness, and the sin I have beheld and been ready to weep… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which… — 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
