Quote: When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. [George Eliot]
Quote: Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. [George Eliot]
Quote: The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. [George Eliot]
Quote: No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. [George Eliot]
Quote: To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy. [George Eliot]
Quote: But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. [George Eliot]
Quote: There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. [George Eliot]
Quote: Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. [George Eliot]
Quote: Those who trust us educate us. [George Eliot]
Quote: Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. [George Eliot]
Quote: No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. [George Eliot]
Quote: It is never too late to be what you might have been. [George Eliot]
Quote: The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. [George Eliot]
Quote: The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection. [George Eliot]
Quote: You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable. [George Eliot]
Quote: Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. [George Eliot]
Quote: Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. [George Eliot]
Quote: The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender. [George Eliot]
Quote: What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? [George Eliot]
Quote: Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! [George Eliot]
Quote: I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. [George Eliot]
Quote: There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear. [George Eliot]
Quote: Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it? [George Eliot]
Quote: The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character. [George Eliot]
Quote: There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. [George Eliot]