Kindle Quotes

It is a misfortune, in some senses: I feed too much on the inward sources; I live too much with the dead.

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—	George Eliot Middlemarch (via Sean)

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

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—	George Eliot Middlemarch (via tellyproducer)

Notions and scruples were like spilt needles, making one afraid of treading, or sitting down, or even eating.

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—	George Eliot Middlemarch (via L.L.)

The thing which seemed to her best, she wanted to justify by the completest knowledge; and not to live in a pretended admission of rules which were never acted on.

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—	George Eliot Middlemarch (via Sammy)

Notions and scruples were like spilt needles, making one afraid of treading, or sitting down, or even eating.

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—	George Eliot Middlemarch (via L.L.)

Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

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—	George Eliot Middlemarch (via Elizabeth Barrett)

Confound you handsome young fellows! you think of having it all your own way in the world. You don’t under stand women. They don’t admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

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—	George Eliot Middlemarch (via A. Christiano)

Her whole soul was possessed by the fact that a fuller life was opening before her: she was a neophyte about to enter on a higher grade of initiation.

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—	George Eliot Middlemarch (via A. Christiano)

Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

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—	George Eliot Middlemarch (via A. Christiano)

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, “Oh, nothing!” Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

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—	George Eliot Middlemarch (via Caleb)