“Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me… — Boethius Copy Share Image
“Quotes from BEGINNINGS: Where A Life Begins….. Life did not improve for Maria; it just became slowly less unbearable Alia’s mother was… — Gary Heilbronn Copy Share Image
“I lent only half an ear to those well-intentioned folk who say that happiness is enervating, liberty too relaxing, and that kindness… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I miss the giggle of my girlfriends as I chased them…and the way they'd squeal when they finally let me catch them.… — Jory Neville Copy Share Image
In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Remember. If the rune were a word, it would have been that one, but there was more meaning to it than any… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Well I started out on guitar, so it is still the mainstay of my music. But I have recently been working very… — Livingston Taylor Copy Share Image
“in old age you are more deeply practised, so to speak. Life has taken its shape. The fundamental decisions have been made.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“I gained great pleasure from my body back then. I gave great pleasure with it, too, if you know what I mean.”… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Excavations at Ai Khanoum on the northern border of modern Afghanistan have produced great quantities of Greek inscriptions and even the remnants… — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
“Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, q who have been borne by me from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The worst part is wondering how you’ll find the strength tomorrow to go on doing what you did today and have been… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“So I pulled the sun screen down and squinted and put the throttle to the floor. And kept on moving west. For… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“To those not yet old, being old means you’ve been. But being old also means that despite, in addition to, and in… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“We age slowly. First our pleasure in life and other people declines, everything gradually becomes so real, we understand the significance of… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Some are dismissed from life in the dawn of infancy; some in the morning of childhood; others in the noon of youth.… — Augustus Toplady Copy Share Image
Marriage is more permanent than love. Love may be eternal, but it is not permanent. It may continue forever and forever, but… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I know more about Emily Bronte than anyone I know. I know enough about her family to have been a part. I’ve… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“Why don’t we all live for a longer time? On mountainsides in California and Nevada there are pine trees that were alive… — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“As a young woman in college, I had no inkling about the sufferings of old age. Proper communication would have informed me… — Laura Bartnick Copy Share Image
“How are you? Did you ever go to Brazil? What do you eat in a day? Are you off the pills? Did… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“in line.” I sighed and lowered my head. I turned around and was about to walk out the door. Then… — Steve the Noob Copy Share Image
“It has occurred to me, brother, that wisdom may not be the end to everything. Goodness and kindness are, perhaps, beyond wisdom.… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
“At Evensong one night, while Holly played at sax and Mrs. Bethel Utemeyer joined in, I saw him: Holiday, racing past a… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women,… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“Kaida's attorney suggested a quit claim deed as the best vehicle for transferring Gail’s home into Kaida's name with a limiting clause… — Lynn Byk Copy Share Image
“I have never yet gotten entirely over the feeling that a Yankee, on account of his peculiar teachings and bringing-up, is far… — George Benjamin West Copy Share Image
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
“Life as it proceeds reveals, cooly and dispassionately, what lies behind the mask that each man wears. It would seem that everyone… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“On differing perspectives: "At birth, we're yanked from a warm, safe place and thrust into a world we have no way of… — Rick Reynolds Copy Share Image
“When born (in the future lives) they are attached again to the body (and mind) as Atman, and become subject to lust… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
