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George Eliot Quotes about Pain

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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Hope, Pain, Live Life

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2488, Delphi Classics

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Pain, People, Literature

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.592, George Eliot

It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.

Pain, Sadness, Feelings

George Eliot (1884). “George Eliot's Works”

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

Pain, Memories, Compassion

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6067, Delphi Classics

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

Pain, Agony, Vibrations

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6060, Delphi Classics

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

Pain, Sorrow, Ears

George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.14

There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

Pain, Hatred, Cry

George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.14

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

Pain, Anger, Men

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I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.

Pain, Feelings, Paradise

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6988, Delphi Classics

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

Strong, Pain, Taken

George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.31, Oxford Paperbacks

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

Jealousy, Pain, Eye

George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.120

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Children, Pain, Ignorance

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.109, ShandonPress

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.

Pain, Grief, Baptism

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

When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.

Pain, Heart, Thinking

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3803, Delphi Classics

I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

Wall, Pain, Lying

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.259, Penguin

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Jesus, Prayer, Pain

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

Peace, Morning, Pain

"Felix Holt, the Radical". Book by George Eliot. Introductory chapter, 1866.

So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

Pain, Men, Justice

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6060, Delphi Classics

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