Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

“someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering—no matter what you may think of them and their supposed good fortune.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.”

— William Wordsworth

“To die old with a young mind is such a tragedy. Naiveness was never a blessing.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“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

“In life, wisdom usually came with age, but death offered another world.”

— Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“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

“I have seen enough, too, to know that it is not always the youngest and best who are spared to those that love them;…

— Charles Dickens

“So weak, so little left, time running out. I will be robbed of my old age. I try not to feel bitter about it,…

— Paul Auster

“Yet, ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their Paradise.…

— Thomas Gray

“You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of life.”

— Jack Vance

“Older people are wise not only because they have lived longer. They're wise because they have lost more.”

— Mari Ruti

“Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us.”

— Donna Tartt