George Eliot Quotes About Sympathy

• The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sympathy

• Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Goodbye, Lonely

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.188

• Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Sympathy, Relation

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1477, Delphi Classics

• Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, People, Depth

• Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Heart, Men

  George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.250

• in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Expression, Certain

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6797, Delphi Classics

• even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Hurt, Hands

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

• There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Depressing, Knowledge

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.137, Penguin

• The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Heart, Shelter

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.235

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