Old age Quote by Leon Trotsky Download Open image ““Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.”” — Leon Trotsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Old age
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. — Michelle Villaflor Amante Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Everyone passes that age and number, once - and encounters it at every mode of life - now and then. Nothing unusual!” — Raj Doctor Copy Share Image
“No matter how old you get, you're always capable of surprising yourself.” — Lisa Kleypas Crystal Cove Copy Share Image
“It's the only thing that brings us together now, you see. Memories. We make so many mistakes in life, young lady, but we only… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“It's terrible to be alone and frightened at any age, but I think it's worse when you're old.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You see when a man knows he will be old, he is afraid: when he becomes old, he cares for nothing—love does not count,… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.' — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“As a battle cry against feudalism, the demand for democracy had a progressive character. As time went on, however, the metaphysics of natural law (the theory of formal democracy) began to show its reactionary side – the establishment of an ideal standard to control the real demands of the laboring masses and the revolutionary parties. If we look back to… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialists do not make war because there are armaments; on the contrary, they forge arms when they need to fight. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness! Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
“So Mack got kind of a late start in the startup world—he founded TakeOff at the ripe old age of twenty-five” — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“Fear of seeing a police car pull into the drive. Fear of falling asleep at night. Fear of not falling asleep. Fear of the past rising up. Fear of the present taking flight. Fear of the telephone that rings in the dead of night. Fear of electrical storms. Fear of the cleaning woman who has a spot on her cheek!… — Raymond Carver Copy Share
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took part in a range of risk-taking adventures when they were younger, and finally became wise when they reflected upon their lives in old age. There is only one problem.” “Which is?” “Risk-taking is a way to… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share
“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
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth. — Bible Copy Share Image
“Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I’m determined to be a big spender in my old age. I want to empty my savings account before I no longer know what… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's… — Melina Kanakaredes Copy Share Image