Appearance Quote by Anonymous

“If there's any message, it is ultimately that it's okay to be different; that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves…

— Johnny Depp

“The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father’s opinions and even into those of…

— John Updike

“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a…

— Katherine Mansfield

“One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade…

— James Joyce

“It is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures, this sombre sameness in middle-aged and elderly people, whose life has resulted in disappointment and discontent,…

— George Eliot

“One gets more and more humble the longer one lives, and in the shadow of death many things look different.”

— August Strindberg

“After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are…

— Marcel Proust

“Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it…

— George Eliot

“They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal…

— Christopher Paolini

“We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.”

— Lynn Hall

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

— Michel de Montaigne

“Those who are ignorant of history and the evolution of taste are apt at every turn to make the present age their standard, and…

— Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury