George Eliot Quotes about Past

All George Eliot Quotes Achievement Affection Age Ambition Anger Anxiety Appearance Art Atheism Attitude Autumn Balance Baptism Beauty Belief Blame Caring Character Charity Childhood Children Choices Church Compassion Confession Conscience Consciousness Country Darkness Death Desire Destiny Determination Disappointment Discipline Doubt Duty Earth Education Effort Evil Expectations Failing Failure Fame Family Fate Fear Feelings Fighting Friends Friendship Funeral Funny Genius Giving Giving Up God Goodness Grief Growth Happiness Hardship Harmony Hate Hatred Heart Heaven Hell Heroism History Home Hope Human Nature Hunger Hurt Husband Ignorance Imagination Injury Inspiration Inspirational Integrity Jealousy Journey Joy Judging Judgment Justice Kindness Kissing Knowledge Language Life Listening Literature Love Luck Lying Marriage Memories Morality Morning Motherhood Motivational Music Nature Opportunity Pain Parting Passion Past quotes Patience Peace Perception Personality Perspective Philosophy Poverty Power Prayer Pride Privacy Probability Progress Quality Reading Reality Religion Reputation Running Sadness Selfishness Silence Simplicity Sin Smile Son Sorrow Soul Sports Spring Struggle Stupidity Success Suffering Summer Sympathy Teaching Temptation Time Tolerance Tragedy Travel Truth Victory Virtue Vision Waiting Wall Water Weakness Wife Wine Winning Wisdom Wit Work Writing Youth

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

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”

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

George Eliot

Moving, Past, Cities

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.211, Booklassic

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.

George Eliot

Life, Past, Reality

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

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

George Eliot

Past, Self, Sorrow

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.415, 谷月社

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

George Eliot

Future, Past, Ties

"The Mill on the Floss". Volume II,

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

George Eliot

Memories, Past, Men

George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.262, London

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

George Eliot

Lying, Past, Should Have

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.550, George Eliot

Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.

George Eliot

Past, Daylight, Rubbish

George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.186

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

George Eliot

Past, Confession, Form

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3792, Delphi Classics

Breed is stronger than pasture.

George Eliot

Past, Stronger, Ancestry

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

George Eliot

Time, Memories, Past

George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.536, 谷月社

With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.

George Eliot

Book, Past, Mirrors

George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, George Eliot

Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.

George Eliot

Nature, Eye, Past

George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.312

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

George Eliot

Past, Years, Desire

George Eliot (2006). “The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Large Edition”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

George Eliot Quotes about Past

You May Also Like: