Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
George EliotSane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
George EliotWe mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
George EliotCruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George Eliot