Age Quote by Chris Adrian

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As…

— Jane Howard

Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.

— Dalai Lama

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

— Samuel Johnson

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control…

— Elihu Root

I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or…

— Wendell Berry

there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.

— Josephine Pinckney

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism…

— Albert Schweitzer

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our…

— Hermann Hesse

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at…

— Elizabeth Kostova

When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when what they are to inherit is pitiful and so…

— Doris Lessing

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a…

— Sogyal Rinpoche