George Eliot Quotes about Grief

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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

George Eliot

Grief, Silence, Suffering

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.427, Wordsworth Editions

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

George Eliot

Sad, Grief, Wrestling

George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.271

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.

George Eliot

Grief, Love Is, Effort

The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning -- a new acquaintance with grief.

George Eliot

Grief, New Beginnings, Each Day

George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.348, Cambridge University Press

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

George Eliot

Spring, Grief, Cutting

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.

George Eliot

Pain, Grief, Baptism

"Adam Bede". Book by George Eliot, 1859.

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

George Eliot

Music, Grief, Men

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1224, Wordsworth Editions

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

George Eliot

Regret, Grief, Affection

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3571, Delphi Classics

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

George Eliot

Grief, Struggle, Fall