There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. George Eliot More Quotes by George Eliot More Quotes From George Eliot And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch George Eliot names dream feelings We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves George Eliot stupidity self world I flutter all ways, and fly in none. George Eliot way Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common. George Eliot home sweet memories For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. George Eliot graves metaphor light We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by. George Eliot names littles people Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture. George Eliot real religious witty A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions. George Eliot fellows opinion cynicism Blameless people are always the most exasperating. George Eliot blameless people Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. George Eliot range ignorance giving Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos. George Eliot harmony chaos order Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy. George Eliot girl men thinking We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it. George Eliot our-world discovery facts Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous. George Eliot atheism form mistake I protest against any absolute conclusion. George Eliot protest conclusion absolutes If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else. George Eliot new-roads littles men Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone. George Eliot would-be giving mean Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances. George Eliot grief struggle fall It's well known there's always two sides, if no more. George Eliot well-known wells two-sides People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are. George Eliot neighbor people thinking
