Aging Quote by John O'Donohue

“Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is furrowed, wrinkled,…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And…

— Anonymous

“I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould.…

— Kahlil Gibran

Even though life may have moved wearily and painfully through such a person, they have still managed not to let it corrode their soul.…

— John O'Donohue

“Suddenly your eye, which was already preparing itself for larger dimensions, goes about willingly with little, hesitating, hearkening steps over the many overgrown paths…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves…

— Philibert Joseph Roux

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

— Joseph Campbell

It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the…

— Naomie Harris

Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of…

— Joseph Rodman Drake

Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but strong and…

— Ruth Perry

“There is an old phrase, ‘hiding in plain sight.’ This is where we find the loved one we miss so much. All we need…

— Susan Barbara Apollon

“It is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures, this sombre sameness in middle-aged and elderly people, whose life has resulted in disappointment and discontent,…

— George Eliot