Go forward with joyful confidence.
George EliotRead
No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The struggles of love are worth it for the joy it brings.
This quote by George Eliot conveys the idea that the pain and challenges experienced in loving someone are outweighed by the fulfillment and happiness that love brings. It reflects a deep commitment to love, suggesting that even significant hardships are a small sacrifice for the profound joy and renewal that love provides.
Themes
LoveAnguishLifeSacrificeJoy
In practice
Example use cases
Sharing this quote at a wedding to emphasize the beauty of enduring love.
More from George Eliot
All quotes βYou must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.
George EliotRead
She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel β that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
George EliotRead
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
George EliotRead
Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.
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