George Eliot Quotes About Love

• Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

  George Eliot

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  "The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern". Book compiled by Tryon Edwards et al., 1960.

• I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.615, 谷月社

• I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.258, Cambridge University Press

• Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

  George Eliot

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

• What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Relationship

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5884, Delphi Classics

• No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

  George Eliot

  Love, Evil, Effort

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3402, Delphi Classics

• Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Morning, Book

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.467, Wordsworth Editions

• Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Jealousy, Anger

  The Mill on the Floss bk. 1, ch. 10 (1860)

• Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

  George Eliot

  Love, Long, Silence

• A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Giving

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.515

• There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

  George Eliot

  Love, Names, Weakness

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.91

• Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

  George Eliot

  Love, Fall, Kissing

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.215, Open Road Media

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

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Mutual

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.545, Penguin

• It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

  George Eliot

  Love, Strong, Conceited

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2804, Delphi Classics

• May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

  George Eliot

  Love, Sweet, Agony

  George Eliot (1900). “Armgart: The Spanish Gypsy, and Other Poems”

• But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Cities

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.657, Wordsworth Editions

• A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

  George Eliot

  Love, Two, Long

• 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

  Love, Heart, Caring

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.690, 谷月社

• Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

  George Eliot

  Love, Vanity, Literature

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.107, Open Road Media

• Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.

  George Eliot

  Love, Summer, Girl

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.113, 谷月社

• Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

  George Eliot

  Love, Peace, Sorrow

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.227, Wordsworth Editions

• Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasseled flower.

  George Eliot

  Love, Flower, Blessed

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3798, Delphi Classics

• We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.

  George Eliot

  Love, Mother, Looks

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.177

• Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung--are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.

  George Eliot

  Love, Dark, Blue

  George Eliot (2006). “Middlemarch: Easyread Edition”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

• It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

  George Eliot

  Love, Heart, Needs

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

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