George Eliot Quotes About Universe

• I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

  George Eliot

  Light, Woven, Unraveling

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.251

• Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Mistake, Self

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.597, Xist Publishing

• Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.

  George Eliot

  Mirrors, Pulse, Done

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.792, George Eliot

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