Age Quote by James Joyce

But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new…

— James Joyce

“A new generation is growing up in our midst, a generation actuated by new ideas and new principles. It is serious and enthusiastic for…

— James Joyce

“our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness”

— samuel johnson

“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

As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Apparently, now and again adults take the time to sit down and contemplate what a disaster their life is. They complain without understanding and,…

— Muriel Barbery

“Whatever we may think or affect to think of the present age, we cannot get out of it; we must suffer with its sufferings,…

— John Stuart Mill

“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 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

When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those…

— Victor Hugo

It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes…

— Lyndon B. Johnson