Age Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Aging Decadence Decay Elders Old age Trying Youth
“Decadence is an elusive concept, resistant to concise definition. In the broadest sense one might explain it as a delight in or preoccupation with… — David J. Bell Copy Share Image
I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“But the trouble is that conscious futility is something only for the young. One cannot go on "despairing of life" in to a ripe… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Now let me begin by sketching for you a very agreeable picture. You are still, I should say, a youngish man by the world’s… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment - or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
