What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?George Eliot
I suppose it is the way with all men and women who reach middle age without the clear perception that life never can be thoroughly joyous. Under the vague dullness of the gray hours, dissatisfaction seeks a definite object, and finds it in the privation of an untried good.George Eliot
We can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.George Eliot
Man's conscience is the oracle of God.George Eliot
I shall never forget the delicious sadness of that music.Daniel Deronda
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.George Eliot
Animals are such agreeable friends ― they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.Gwendolen Harleth
It is a familiar fact to observation that mock sentimentality produces more callousness than the downright indifference of a worldly man.George Eliot
Delight in your own existence.Daniel Deronda
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.George Eliot
Most of us would rather be at ease with a cheerful surface-beneath which old skeletons are securely lodged in their graves than with nobody knows what passionate life at the heart, pregnant with volcanic consequences.George Eliot
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.George Eliot
Trying to be good is like trying to scramble up an icy slope—better keep quiet than make a fuss about it.Gwendolen Harleth
The reward of service should be methinks to render greater service.Daniel Deronda
Self-reliance was spoken of as a virtue; it would be more just to say that human strength, rightly understood, is reliance on Self.Daniel Deronda