Growing old Quote by Henning Mankell Download Open image ““Growing older was like a mist silently drifting across the sea.”” — Henning Mankell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Growing old Growing older
“What shall I do with this ageing me? Neither floating nor sinking, I drift, tossed by the waves of years.” — Takuboku Ishikawa Copy Share Image
“One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face.” — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she woke up speaking his name. Sometimes she wondered how it were possible to be so far from the sea and still feel… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“At their very feet had been the river. The boat came breasting out of the mist, and in they stepped. All new things in… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“The truth is that over time, the vessel expands as well. You grow. Your life widens.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Her breathing was shallow, a seashore slowly being covered with water.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“now? When she looked at herself she saw her outside changing, growing older, while inside she still felt young. Aging was a strange thing—made… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
“We had been younger. Yup, you can grow a lot in the blink of an eye.” — Liz Thebart Copy Share Image
“I wonder if this is how it feels to grow old. Knowing that time is still passing but you’re no longer a part of… — Ryan Galloway Copy Share Image
“Some troubles do not go away as we grow older. They grow older with us.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“If a policeman is serious about his profession but says he has time, he lies.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“There is a silence in empty houses that is unique... People have left and taken all the noise with them.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight.… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“The experience he'd gained during his years in the police force had given him this unambiguous answer: there are no murderers. Only ordinary people… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“This is what Sweden is - quiet people leaning over the newspapers and coffee cups, each one with his own thoughts and destiny.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“La plupart des voyages dont on rêve n'ont jamais lieu. Ou alors on les accomplit intérieurement. L'avantage, quand on emprunte ces vols intérieurs, c'est… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The whole idea of it makes me feel Like I’m coming down with something, Something worse than any stomach ache Or the headaches I… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Till now they send him dreams and no more deed; So doth he flame again with might for action, Forgetful of the council of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
M is for the million things she gave me, O means only that she's growing old, T is for the tears she shed to… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.” — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“Sometimes seeing the changes in one another had the opposite effect and actually comforted them. Seeing that they weren’t alone in growing older, they… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
