George Eliot Quotes About Age

• The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Time

• In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

  George Eliot

  Time, Men, Ties

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.104, Penguin

• How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . .

  George Eliot

  Men, Decision, Age

• A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

  George Eliot

  Love, Two, Long

• If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Earthquakes, Hopeful

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2528, Delphi Classics

• Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Memories, Home

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.542, Penguin

• Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

  George Eliot

  Soul, Age, Ugly

  George Eliot (2004). “Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.89, Sparklesoup LLC

• Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

  George Eliot

  Death, Years, Shadow

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6956, Delphi Classics

• When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

  George Eliot

  Age, Reason, Goodness

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.607, ShandonPress

• In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

  George Eliot

  Men, Age, Singles

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.166

• ... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us. With that renunciation for ourselves which age inevitably brings, we get more freedom of soul to enter into the life of others; what we can never learn they will know, and the gladness which is a departed sunlight to us is rising with the strength of morning to them.

  George Eliot

  Morning, Joy, Soul

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.603

• In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.

  George Eliot

  Life, Spring, Wine

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.693, Oxford Paperbacks

• Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Eye, Men

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1359, Delphi Classics

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