Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our… — Sara Shandler Copy Share Image
Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
An American is a guy, a rich guy with a family, a decent guy with a family with as many kids as… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
“The fowl must have been sought for a long time on the perch, to which it had retired to die of old… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“A person in her twenties has been a child for most of her life, but as time goes by that portion that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you have only a little capital and are young today, there are fewer opportunities than when I was young. Back then,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“A child has a deep longing to discover that the World is based on Truth. Respect that longing. In our attempt to… — Natasa Pantovic Nuit Copy Share Image
song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“He reasoned, even as a young man, that traditions may linger as he walked though the oracles of time. In later years… — Andrew Coster Copy Share Image
“What does that mean? I do not have the heart to tell you but know if only half of what is whispered… — David Jetre Copy Share Image
“This world, for aught he knows, is very faulty and imperfect, compared to a superior standard; and was only the first rude… — David Hume Copy Share Image
And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night… — Ihara Saikaku Copy Share Image
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Old age… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically,… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“He had a frozen, wide-eyed look to his face, I remember, the way some old people do, like they are perpetually startled… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then… — John Nettles Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In our daily lives problems are bound to arise. The biggest problems in our lives are the ones that we inevitably have… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“So weak, so little left, time running out. I will be robbed of my old age. I try not to feel bitter… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
“Now don’t you give me any of that talk about becoming overly protective and fussy in my old age. I have every… — Jaye L. Knight Copy Share Image
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn At… — Laurence Binyon Copy Share Image
“To die of old age...is a rare, singular, and extraordinary death. It is the last and extremist kind of dying. It encourages… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
In my old age, I've learned that if I put the right cymbal crash in the very right spot, exactly, it can… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“I’m determined to be a big spender in my old age. I want to empty my savings account before I no longer… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
