George Eliot
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 November 1819
death
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
life death kings
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
death perfect feels
Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.
death years shadow
Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.
death heart waiting
The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
death brother journey
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey.
death funeral looks
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.
death dying literature
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
men life-and-death likes
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.
beyond british-author large realm silence
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
duty finding happiness impressed
I'm more and more impressed with the duty of finding happiness
almighty denying god match men-and-women women
I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men
almighty british-author denying god match women
I'm not denying that women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men.
again choir dead immortal invisible join minds oh
Oh may I join the choir invisible / Of those immortal dead who live again / In minds made better by their presence.