George Eliot Trying Quotations

What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Instead of trying to still his fears, he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all, that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come . . .