What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
George Eliot

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
George Eliot

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

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
George Eliot

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George Eliot

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
George Eliot

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George Eliot

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
George Eliot