“When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“As I got older, I thought about aging more, as we all do. I came to think of old age as a… — Lai Wen Copy Share Image
“Since I encountered death, met death on every mountain path,conversed with death in my sleep, wrestled with death in the snow, gambled… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water,… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
“Death is a beautiful naked man who looks like Apollo, and he is not satisfied with those who wither away in old… — Louis de Berniѐres Copy Share Image
Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of… — Ida Rolf Copy Share Image
“...he never so much as looks at me. He just sits there reading his old history books, that really gets me. I… — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“When did a sheep last die of old age? Sheep do not own themselves, do not own their lives. They exist to… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Because our world is not the same as Othello's world. You can't make flivvers without steel—and you can't make tragedies without social… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every one of the geezers who continues to play a leadership role has one quality of overriding importance: neotony. The dictionary definition… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
“One can distinguish several types of inspiration, which intergrade, as all things do in this fluid and interesting world of ours, while… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Old age is, it occurs to Busner as he lies stranded on his side staring at the clock radio, a form of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city. Finally he comes to Isidora,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“We could endlessly reminisce, live in the past to an unhealthy degree, then politely kill each other some winter night before bedtime,… — Timothy Schaffert Copy Share Image
“Given that there is every indication I’ll be checking the single box on all official forms from now until I’m dead, hopefully… — Lindsey Stuffel Copy Share Image
“In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“You want to leave the moat, to go back to the room; you’re already turning and trying to find the door, covered… — Sasha Sokolov Copy Share Image
Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which… — Cephalus Copy Share Image
“I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“I know, it looks pure and beautiful to you now, at your great old age of twenty-two. But do you know what… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The old grief of the great mystery of human life gradually passes into a quiet, tender joy; in place of the boiling… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“This son of his old age was yet more dear— Less from instinctive tenderness, the same Fond spirit that blindly works in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
