George Eliot Quotes About Destiny

• 'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

  George Eliot

  Character, Destiny, Aphorism

  The Mill on the Floss bk. 6, ch. 6 (1860)

• Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

  George Eliot

  Sarcastic, Destiny, Hands

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.72, Penguin

• There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Husband, War

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.689, Oxford Paperbacks

• In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

  George Eliot

  Destiny, Feelings, Firsts

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.890, ShandonPress

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