There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
George EliotScenes which make vital changes in our neighbors' lot are but the background of our own, yet, like a particular aspect of the fields and trees, they become associated for us with the epochs of our own history, and make a part of that unity which lies in the selection of our keenest consciousness.
George EliotOur dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George EliotStichwörter: death
If a princess in the days of enchantment had seen a four-footed creature from among those which live in herds come to her once and again with a human gaze which rested upon her with choice and beseeching, what would she think of in her journeying, what would she look for when the herds passed her? Surely for the gaze which had found her, and which she would know again.
George EliotStichwörter: romance
We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
George EliotShe seated herself on a dark ottoman with the brown books behind her, looking in her plain dress of some thin woollen-white material, without a single ornament on her besides her wedding-ring, as if she were under a vow to be different from all other women; and Will sat down opposite her at two yards' distance, the light falling on his bright curls and delicate but rather petulant profile, with its defiant curves of lip and chin. Each looked at the other as if they had been two flowers which had opened then and there. Dorothea for the moment forgot her husband's mysterious irritation against Will: it seemed fresh water at her thirsty lips to speak without fear to the one person whom she had found receptive; for in looking backward through sadness she exaggerated a past solace.
George EliotWhat greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George EliotStichwörter: insprational
Expenditure–like ugliness and errors–becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.
George EliotOur deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds
George EliotStichwörter: life-lessons
No chemical process shows a more wonderful activity than the transforming influence of the thoughts we imagine to be going on in another.
George EliotStichwörter: appearance-perception-imagined
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