More quotes by George Eliot

"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."
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."
"Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me."