“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.”
More from George Eliot
“I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.”
“I meant to go away into silence, but I have not been able to do what I meant.”
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”