George Eliot Quotes About Hunger

• It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Witty, Giving Up

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1147, Wordsworth Editions

• 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.

  George Eliot

  Reading, Able, Hunger

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6603, Delphi Classics

• It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Forbidden Love, Needs

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

• It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

  George Eliot

  Love, Heart, Needs

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

• What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Sweet, Heart

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3376, Delphi Classics

• The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.

  George Eliot

  Life, Heart, Men

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.6, 谷月社

• The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

  George Eliot

  Taste, Firsts, Unbearable

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.255, Wordsworth Editions

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