More quotes by George Eliot

"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
"The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world."
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love."
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."