George Eliot Quotes about Joy

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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

George Eliot

Compassion, Joy, Suffering

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.237, 谷月社

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

George Eliot

Strong, Joy, Soul

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.190, Penguin

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

George Eliot

Past, Joy, Sorrow

George Eliot (1955). “The George Eliot Letters: 1878-1880”

Joy is the best of wine.

George Eliot

Wine, Joy

George Eliot (1861). “Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe”, p.80

... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us. With that renunciation for ourselves which age inevitably brings, we get more freedom of soul to enter into the life of others; what we can never learn they will know, and the gladness which is a departed sunlight to us is rising with the strength of morning to them.

George Eliot

Morning, Joy, Soul

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.603

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

George Eliot

Men, Joy, Forever

George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.148

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.

George Eliot

Air, Joy, Misery

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

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

George Eliot

Men, Joy, Forever

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.10

Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample o'er the dead to seize their spoil, Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible As exhaltations laden with slow death, And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys Breathes pallid pestilence.

George Eliot

Joy, Soul, Desire

George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda0: Collection of British and American Authors”, p.2