But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. - George Eliot. View more images...
What makes life dreary is want of motive. - George Eliot. View more images...
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up. - George Eliot. View more images...
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. - George Eliot. View more images...
Women know no perfect love:
Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong;
Man clings because the being whom he loves
Is weak and needs him. - George Eliot. View more images...
It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them. - George Eliot. View more images...
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! - George Eliot. View more images...
What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? - George Eliot. View more images...
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. - George Eliot. View more images...
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. - George Eliot. View more images...
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. - George Eliot. View more images...
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. - George Eliot. View more images...
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. - George Eliot. View more images...
But is it what we love, or how we love,
That makes true good? - George Eliot. View more images...
'Tis what I love determines how I love. - George Eliot. View more images...