Growing old Quote by Justin Wetch Download Open image ““What is it about growing older That bites venomously Into the neck of hope?”” — Justin Wetch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Growing old Growing older Hope Life Poetry Quote
“It’s not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made worse by… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope” — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I never intend to grow old. The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It’s a comforting thought knowing that no matter how old I get, I can always get older.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Some troubles do not go away as we grow older. They grow older with us.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Love is dead And we are each to blame When we took lighters over wild flame.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“There are seven billion faces smiling in as many ways But if I don’t see yours, I consider it a wasted day.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“I’ve always hated it when authors seem to find joy In killing my favorite characters. With gleaming eyes they toy With turmoil in every chapter. Just when they’ve got you attached To the character’s quirks and flaws To their words and their demons Just when you’ve fallen in love With the character’s identity— With a cruel turn of the lip… — Justin Wetch Copy Share
“I don’t want safety or guarantees— I want a life worth living. I want to jump off a skyscraper And fashion a parachute on… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“As artists, we create the beauty We are too afraid to live out And search, but always fall just shy Of finding what life… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“Society is a vicious rubber stamp Labelling and assigning camps But love is an illuminating lamp.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“Fate is the cruelest of masters, taking Life when it pleases or at random, handing Rigged decks to whom it pleases, cheating All alike… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“The pulpit is beautifully furnished and bright But it's rotted in places not seen by the light” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“The rays of sun spilled Like coffee into a pot Gently, warmly flowing Almost as an afterthought. The morning dew melted to vapor Rising into a morning mist As the supple steam rose from the cup And with the breeze, was dismissed. I took my mocha with extra cream As clouds drifted across the sky Forming thick, bushy clumps Becoming… — Justin Wetch Copy Share
“Love is just two people Plastering perfect masks On each others’ faces; And it only lasts Until the masks crack And the fantasy ends.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“You brought me to places I’d have never thought to go To a trail near the river Where the water runs slow; To a… — Justin Wetch 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 becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity. Release me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples' affairs.… — Anonymous Copy Share
“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 get from reading in bad light – A kind of measles of the spirit A mumps of the psyche, A disfiguring chicken pox of the soul. You tell me it is too early to be looking… — Billy Collins Copy Share
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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 old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor. — George Clooney Copy Share
“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 stopped caring, or at least caring so much. But often this seemed to be accompanied by a kind of neutering, a gradual disappearance of anything remotely resembling sexuality, until finally the men in question were more… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share
