George Eliot Quotes About Failing

• These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

  George Eliot

  Jewels, Color, Jewelry

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2657, ShandonPress

• Life's a vast sea
  That does its mighty errand without fail,
  Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.

  George Eliot

  Life, Sea, Doe

• It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey.

  George Eliot

  Death, Brother, Journey

• There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

  George Eliot

  Sorrow, Trying, Failing

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.499, Penguin

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