Life Quote by George Eliot

“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

“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

“I suppose if one lives to be old, one's entire waking life will be spent turning on the spit of recollection over the fires…

— Philip Larkin

“I am saddened by the reality that an individual has to live the whole life with the bitter fact that it can’t be sweeter…

— Bhavik Sarkhedi

“We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the “fresh life within” that age reveals…

— Joan D. Chittister

“To manage to smile and have a good laugh in the midst of difficult times makes you look younger.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“The young can be very lovely, but the faces of the old can be truly beautiful.”

— Jennifer Worth

“mockery! bitter, biting mockery of grey hairs, have I lived enough joy to wear ye; and seem and feel thus intolerably old?”

— Herman Melville

“When we are young, we take a certain pleasure in our infirmities. They seem so new, so rich! With age, they no longer surprise…

— Emil Cioran

“It is the juices of youth, the joy and gladness carried along through the busy years that make old age tolerable.”

— Orison Swett Marden

“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. The mild serenity of age takes the place…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Today I am 65 years old. I still look good. I appreciate and enjoy my age. A lot of people resist transition and therefore…

— Nikki Giovanni