George Eliot Quotes

You're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what’s going on.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.

There aren't always answers for the questions you're looking for, so I have to make peace with that sometimes.

Don't assume I have everything figured out... I get as confused about life as everybody, and sometimes I think I'm just hurtling through the world without a plan at all.

I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all means.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

I feel very ill-equipped to be giving anyone advice about their life.

I'm not so certain in life.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

My search not only failed, but I convinced myself that all those who had searched like myself had failed also, and come like me to the despairing conviction that the only absolute knowledge man can possess is this—that life is without a meaning.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a time.' And how long is that going to take?' I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.' That could be a long time.' I will tell you a further mystery,' he said. 'It may take longer.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.