George Eliot Quotes about Sorrow

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My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

George Eliot

Sky, Childhood, Sorrow

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

George Eliot

Sorrow, Trying, Failing

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.499, Penguin

The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.

George Eliot

Sorrow, Sublime, Speech

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.171

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”

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

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

George Eliot

Sorrow, Despair, Young

George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

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

George Eliot

Pain, Sorrow, Ears

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

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

George Eliot

Heart, Sorrow, Trouble

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.118, Wordsworth Editions

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.

George Eliot

Love, Peace, Sorrow

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