George Eliot Quotes

“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? —an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”

― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

topic:love joy care

“I suppose a woman is never in love with any one she has always known—ever since she can remember; as a man often is. It is always some new fellow who strikes a girl.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:love

“to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her, and to whom she is grateful.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:love kindness

“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:love feeling

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

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:love women men

“one has a grudge against a man who carries off the prettiest girl in the town.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:love

“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent...”

― George Eliot, Adam Bede

topic:love sorrow

“no anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

topic:love pain

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:life silence

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:life difficulty

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