George Eliot Quotes About Anxiety

• He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

  George Eliot

  People, Anxiety, Feelings

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.125, Wordsworth Editions

• Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Mistake, Self

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.597, Xist Publishing

• Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

  George Eliot

  Anxiety, Perception, Captives

  George Eliot (189?). “Middlemarch”

• Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.

  George Eliot

  Motherhood, Vanity, Self

  George Eliot (1876). “Scenes of clerical life”, p.267

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