George Eliot Quotes about Disappointment

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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

George Eliot

Wisdom, Disappointment, Memorable

George Eliot (2006). “Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.155, Prestwick House Inc

But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.

George Eliot

Disappointment, Suffering, Faithfulness

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.444

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

George Eliot

Disappointment, Lying, Forever

George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.

George Eliot

Disappointment, May, Vexation

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.127

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

George Eliot

Hurt, Disappointment, Pride

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin