George Eliot Relation Quotations

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relation of the least-instructed human beings...