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George Eliot Quotes about Childhood

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My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

George Eliot
Sky, Childhood, Sorrow

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

George Eliot
Children, Childhood, Earth
George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.30, Courier Corporation

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

George Eliot
Memories, Childhood, Sorrow
George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.104

All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.

George Eliot
New Experiences, Childhood, Would Be
George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1676, ShandonPress

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