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George Eliot Quotes about Love

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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Love, Friendship, Relationship

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Love, Inspirational, Friendship

"The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern". Book compiled by Tryon Edwards et al., 1960.

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

Love, Easy, Difficult

George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.515

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

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

Love, Long, Silence

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

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Love, Jealousy, Anger

The Mill on the Floss bk. 1, ch. 10 (1860)

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

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

Love, Two, Long

Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung--are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.

Love, Dark, Blue

George Eliot (2006). “Middlemarch: Easyread Edition”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

Love, Heart, Needs

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Love, Evil, Effort

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3402, Delphi Classics

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

Love, Peace, Sorrow

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.227, Wordsworth Editions

May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

Love, Sweet, Agony

George Eliot (1900). “Armgart: The Spanish Gypsy, and Other Poems”

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

Love, Men, Cities

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.657, Wordsworth Editions

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

Love, Character, Men

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.164, Xist Publishing

Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

Love, Mystery, Divine

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.35, Xist Publishing

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

Love, Names, Weakness

George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.91

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

Love, Fall, Kissing

George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.215, Open Road Media

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

Love, Men, Mutual

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.545, Penguin

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Love, Life, Giving

George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.515

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

Love, Morning, Book

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.467, Wordsworth Editions

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

Love, Strong, Conceited

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2804, Delphi Classics

Love supreme defies all sophistry.

Love, Sophistry, Supreme

GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.213

It must be sad to outlive aught we love.

Love

GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.77

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