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Age Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
- The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled…
- Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from…
- We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that…
- I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea,…
- It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
- For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end.
More Age Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold