Quote by Donna Tartt

“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

“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

“We learn as we get older to appreciate the people we love for who they are, and for how they love us.”

— Nora McInerny Purmort

“Growing old does not make us any better at loving one another or understanding the meaning of life or death. Nor does knowledge come…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“...we should never grow so old, or change so much, that we cannot find room in our hearts for the wisdom of children's books.”

— Judith Viorst

“Terrible things can happen to you that leave you unable to risk trusting the world with what you love; I know this better than…

— Susan Meissner

“I can't buy the idea that we're supposed to live and learn from horrible things. That somehow these things happen so we can grow…

— Julie Halpern

“When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' less somebody else can…

— Walter Mosley

“We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.”

— Chuck Klosterman

“Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“How wonderful it is to by my age - our age - and learn you were wrong about such a fundamental thing. ”

— Anthony Doerr

“The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply what has taken you so long to learn.”

— Jonathan Carroll