Age Quote by Clive Barker

The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era…

— R.J. Rushdoony

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death…

— Gertrude Stein

The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal…

— Horace Mann

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

— Ada Cambridge

Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity…

— Charles Mackay

Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time…

— Ashley Montagu

The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.

— Lillian B. Rubin

“Age was no guide then, nor is it now. The old and the young defy their endings, while others go too soon. Neither is…

— Conn Iggulden

Old age has the last word: the purely naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it may begin, is sure to end in sadness. .…

— William James

Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like…

— Sophie Swetchine