--- title: "1 Grown Old Quotes By Sándor Márai" description: "1 Grown Old quotes by Sándor Márai. Plus more from Sándor Márai and more Grown Old sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a2/s-ndor-m-rai-3978_life_we-age-slowly-first-our-pleasure-in-life_1411138.png" --- > [“We age slowly. First our pleasure in life and other people declines, everything gradually becomes so real, we understand the significance of everything, everything repeats itself in a kind of troubling boredom. It's the function of age. We know a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/we-age-slowly-first-our-pleasure-in-life-and-other-people-declines/) [Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a2/s-ndor-m-rai-3978_life_we-age-slowly-first-our-pleasure-in-life_1411138.png) ## More by Sándor Márai > [Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/time-is-a-purgatory-that-has-cleansed-all-fury-from-my-memories/) [Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/) > [“Friendship is no ideal state of mind; it is a law, and a strict one, on which the entire legal systems of great cultures…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/friendship-is-no-ideal-state-of-mind-it-is-a-law-and-a-strict-one-on/) [Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/) > [There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/there-is-no-pain-like-the-pain-of-knowing-you-love-someone-but-cannot/) [Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/) > [“Tomorrow, everyone who is beautiful will come under suspicion. As will those with talent and those with character.” His voice was hoarse. “Don’t you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/tomorrow-everyone-who-is-beautiful-will-come-under-suspicion-as-will/) [Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/) > [Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/is-disinterest-not-the-essence-of-every-human-relationship/) [Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/) > [“There is this question of otherness….So just as it is blood alone that binds people to defend one another in the face of danger,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/there-is-this-question-of-otherness-so-just-as-it-is-blood-alone-that/) [Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/) > [“One can get closer to reality and the facts by using words, questions and answers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/one-can-get-closer-to-reality-and-the-facts-by-using-words-questions/) [Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/) > [“I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/i-returned-from-the-west-and-brought-home-in-my-nostrils-and-nerves/) [Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/) > [“There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/there-are-worse-things-than-suffering-and-death-it-is-worse-to-lose/) [Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/) > [“Vienna wasn't just a city, it was a tone that either one carries forever in one's soul or one does not. It was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/vienna-wasn-t-just-a-city-it-was-a-tone-that-either-one-carries/) [Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/) > [No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/no-the-secret-is-that-there-s-no-reward-and-we-have-to-endure-our/) [Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/) > [“To nie komputer jest winien, ze przeważająca większość ludzi dziś jest w dalszym ciagu głupia, tylko sam człowiek, który w każdej cywilizacji, a więc…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/to-nie-komputer-jest-winien-ze-przewa-aj-ca-wi-kszo-ludzi-dzi-jest-w/) [Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/) > [“You can even make facts lie.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/you-can-even-make-facts-lie/) [Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/) > [“Byla neurčitelná a nezařaditelná, jako by ji úplne nepojímala žádná národnost a třída, jako by se příroda jednou pokusila vytvořit samostatnou nezávislou a svobodnou…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/byla-neur-iteln-a-neza-aditeln-jako-by-ji-plne-nepoj-mala-dn-n/) [Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/) > [We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/we-all-of-us-must-come-to-terms-with-what-and-who-we-are-and/) [Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/grown-old/s-ndor-m-rai/#itemlist", "name": "1 Grown Old Quotes By Sándor Márai", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We age slowly. 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