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George Eliot Quotes about Life

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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Life, Literature, Compunction

George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.132, 谷月社

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Inspirational, Life, Friendship

George Eliot (2016). “Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus”, p.210, 谷月社

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

Life, Saws, Gravity

George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.101

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

Life, Exercise, Animal

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Life, Motivation, Literature

George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.658, Oxford Paperbacks

The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.

Life, Heart, Men

George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.6, 谷月社

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Love, Life, Relationship

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5884, Delphi Classics

Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant.

Life, Distance, Views

George Eliot (1883*). “The Works of George Eliot in Twelve Volumes: Scenes of clerical life - Life of George Eliot”

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Life, Change, Influence

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2578, ShandonPress

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

Inspirational, Life, Good Intentions

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.605, ShandonPress

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Life, Wisdom, Peace

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

Life, Past, Reality

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.75

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Life, Death, Kings

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.401

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

Life, Writing, Letters

Letter to Mrs Peter Taylor, 8 June 1856

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

Life, Long, Lessons

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.375, George Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Love, Life, Valentines Day

George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.258, Cambridge University Press

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Life, Numbers, Obscurity

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch - A Study of Provincial Life -”, p.367, Read Books Ltd

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Love, Life, Valentines Day

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.615, 谷月社

When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

Life, Clouds, Imagination

George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.259

In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.

Life, Spring, Wine

George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.693, Oxford Paperbacks

Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

Life, Games, Play

"Felix Holt, The Radical".

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

Life, Good Life, Affection

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.362, 谷月社

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Life, Literature, Determined

'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 3

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