Aging Quote by Mark Doty

“The interior life expands and fills; it approaches the edge of skin; it thickens with its own vivid story; it even begins to hear…

— Annie Dillard

The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.

— D. H. Lawrence

What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even blood gets…

— Luke Davies

What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.

— Friedrich Schiller

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Early man recognised these lines of force and marked them out on the landscape with, well, any old thing, really standing stones, ditches, mounds,…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of…

— Matthew Arnold

“History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.”

— Simone Weil

“This dirty, damp patch of grass—was this really the setting of those years of my childhood, so radiant and winged in my memory? This…

— Erich Maria Remarque

How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as…

— Washington Irving

“I lived through all these times, these great events, without caring very much, concerned with my own aging rather than the world's. Most of…

— Mal Peet

Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came…

— Suketu Mehta