George Eliot Quotes About Grief

• She was no longer wrestling with the grief,
  but could sit down with it as a lasting companion
  and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

  George Eliot

  Sad, Grief, Wrestling

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.271

• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Grief, Baptism

  "Adam Bede". Book by George Eliot, 1859.

• Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

  George Eliot

  Grief, Struggle, Fall

• We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

  George Eliot

  Grief, Silence, Suffering

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.427, Wordsworth Editions

• 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.

  George Eliot

  Grief, Love Is, Effort

• O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

  George Eliot

  Regret, Grief, Affection

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3571, Delphi Classics

• The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning -- a new acquaintance with grief.

  George Eliot

  Grief, New Beginnings, Each Day

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.348, Cambridge University Press

• I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.

  George Eliot

  Real, Grief, Thinking

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.145

• It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Grief, Cutting

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

• There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

  George Eliot

  Music, Grief, Men

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1224, Wordsworth Editions

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