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George Eliot Quotes about Silence

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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

George Eliot
Grief, Silence, Suffering
George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.427, Wordsworth Editions

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

George Eliot
Love, Long, Silence

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

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

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

George Eliot
Silence, Expressive

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

George Eliot
Silence, Speech, Nests
'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 15

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

George Eliot
Eggs, Silence, Doe
'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 15

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

George Eliot
Eggs, Silence, May

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

George Eliot
Night, Voice, Silence
George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3820, Delphi Classics

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