Age Quote by Ezra Pound

“The disorientation of meeting one’s sagging contemporaries, memories of a younger face crashing into the reality of jowls, under-eye pouches, unexpected lines, and then…

— Emily St. John Mandel

“Why were people always driven to be something they were not, spending their early years wanting to look older and their later years striving…

— Rachel Abbott

[Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the…

— Janet Malcolm

“What seems strained - a mere triumph of perverse ingenuity - to one age, seems plain and obvious to another, so that our ancestors…

— C.S. Lewis

Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was raised sublime...…

— Robert Montgomery

“In old magazines and newspapers we find a number of uncomfortably revealing things: the aged as young, the dead as living, forgotten people as…

— Robert Grudin

“...the salient feature of the absurd age I was at--an age which for all its alleged awkwardness, is prodigiously rich-- is that reason is…

— proust

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

— Diane de Poitiers

An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What…

— William Butler Yeats

“Age creeps upon your timid little faces Beneath each black umbrella sly and slow, Proud in the unimportance of your places You sit in…

— Iris Tree

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the…

— Clarence Day

Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson