We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
GEORGE ELIOTI have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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