Inevitability Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image ““Life's greatest tragedy is that we grow old too soon and wise too late.”” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grow Old Inevitability Life Paraphrased Too late Unfortunate
“Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“It’s not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made worse by… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of life is that it comes just once and before you know it, it is gone.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The greatest Tragedy of life is not death but what dies within us when we are still alive” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates.” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.” — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To die old with a young mind is such a tragedy. Naiveness was never a blessing.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“Part of the apparently conventional nature of our relationships is the threat of separation and death. This body dies. That body dies. We can… — Adi Da Samraj Copy Share Image
There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“In that moment I’m able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I think my way of showing violence is unique from that of other filmmakers, in that when I show it, it hurts. It happens… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
“I'm beginning to feel as though everything has happened before, that our story has already been told. Just as we were powerless to stop… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
“These things happen. And we say to ourselves, “Never again.” And a hundred years pass. And they happen. Again.” — Qntm Copy Share Image
Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light. — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a natural law… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life’s dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image