1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.

Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the pathways yet? What reaches him, stays with him, rules him: he must accept it, not knowing its pathway.

The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.