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George Eliot Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“I meant to go away into silence, but I have not been able to do what I meant.”
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Tagged: Silence, Hesitations, Escape
“...what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Tagged: Lonely, Loneliness, Solitude, Alone, Distrust, Doubt, suspicion
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Tagged: Music, Poetry
“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”
— George Eliot, Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: first lines of books
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
— George Eliot, Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Intelligence, Learning, Knowledge
“'I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world!'
'Nonsense, child; you'll think your husband better.'
'Impossible...'”
— Mary, Middlemarch
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Relationships, husbands, Family, Love, Unconditional Love
“We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
— George Eliot, The Mill On The Floss
Tagged: The Mill On The Floss
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Tagged: Middlemarch, Uplifting Literature
“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Tagged: Grief, Grieving, Moving On
“One can begin so many things with a new person! Even begin to be a better man.”
— George Eliot, Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Love, Dating, Marriage
“I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.”
— George Eliot, Letter to Georgiana Burne-Jones
Tagged: Love Quote, pasisonate, Intimate, Relationships, Desire
“It is never too late to be who you might have been.”
— George Eliot, No Title
Tagged: Time, Change, character, Self-Development, Self-improvement
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”
— George Eliot, Adam Bede (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: deeds, Personality
“You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.”
— George Eliot, Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Work, Career, Passion
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
— George Eliot, Adam Bede (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Love, soulmates, Dating, Marriage
“As Celia bent over the paper, Dorothea put her cheek against her sister's arm caressingly. Celia understood the action. Dorothea saw that she had been in the wrong, and Celia pardoned her. Since they could remember, there had been a mixture of criticism and awe in the attitude of Celia's mind towards her elder sister. The younger had always worn a yoke, but is there any yoked creature without its private opinions?”
— George Eliot, Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Sister Love, Sisters, critcism, Connection
“Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one of those rare moments of experience when we feel the truth of a commonplace, which is as different from what we call knowing it, as the vision of waters upon the earth is different from the delirious vision of the water which cannot be had to cool the burning tongue. When the commonplace 'We must all die' transforms itself suddenly into the acute consciousness 'I must die--and soon,' then death grapples us, and his fingers are cruel; afterwards, he may come to fold us in his arms as our mother did, and our last moment of dim earthly discerning may be like the first.”
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Tagged: Death, What It Feels Like To Die
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