George Eliot Quotes
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
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I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.
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Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.
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There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
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There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.
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Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
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I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.
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Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.
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Trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.
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Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!
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As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
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I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
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We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.