George Eliot quotes

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
- George Eliot

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
- George Eliot

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

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
- George Eliot

Her own misery filled her heart; there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
- George Eliot

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot