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George Eliot Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“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
“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
“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
“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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