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Quotation from Middlemarch by George Eliot

“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 Eliot (spoken by Narrator)

Middlemarch, Book II, Chapter XX (Project Gutenberg text)

Portrait of George Eliot

The narrator's reflection on Dorothea weeping alone in Rome, six weeks after her wedding.

Citation: "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 Eliot, Middlemarch, Book II, Chapter XX (Project Gutenberg text). (id middlemarch-q3)

Portrait: George Eliot, por François D'Albert Durade, replica by François D’Albert Durade (1804–1886), Public domain.

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