Quotes from George Eliot
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
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
- George Eliot
The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.
- George Eliot
For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
- George Eliot
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.
- 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
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
- George Eliot
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
- George Eliot
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
- George Eliot
For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
- George Eliot
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
Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
- George Eliot