George Eliot Quotes About Life

• What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

  George Eliot

  Life, Motivation, Literature

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.658, Oxford Paperbacks

• I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.615, 谷月社

• I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.258, Cambridge University Press

• What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Relationship

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5884, Delphi Classics

• What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

  George Eliot

  Life, Numbers, Obscurity

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch - A Study of Provincial Life -”, p.367, Read Books Ltd

• One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Life, Littles, Facts

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.150, Oxford Paperbacks

• There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

• When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

  George Eliot

  Life, Wisdom, Peace

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

• I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

  George Eliot

  Life, Long, Lessons

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.375, George Eliot

• The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  George Eliot (2016). “Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus”, p.210, 谷月社

• Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

  George Eliot

  Life, Exercise, Animal

• Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

  George Eliot

  Life, Change, Influence

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2578, ShandonPress

• Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

  George Eliot

  Life, Writing, Letters

  Letter to Mrs Peter Taylor, 8 June 1856

• For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Past, Reality

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.75

• Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Good Intentions

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.605, ShandonPress

• Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.

  George Eliot

  Life, Air, Games

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.196

• A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Giving

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.515

• 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

• But is it what we love, or how we love,
  That makes true good?

  George Eliot

  Life, Good Life

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6238, Delphi Classics

• Women know no perfect love:
  Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong;
  Man clings because the being whom he loves
  Is weak and needs him.

  George Eliot

  Life, Strong, Love Is

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.459

• Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Good Life, Affection

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.362, 谷月社

• Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.

  George Eliot

  Life, Shoes, Looks

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.35

• Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

  George Eliot

  Life, Real, Too Late

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.546, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

• The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Literature, Compunction

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.132, 谷月社

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