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“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

“Age creeps upon your timid little faces Beneath each black umbrella sly and slow, Proud in the unimportance of your places You sit in…

— Iris Tree

“With mortal age comes the immense need for childish charms. Like a fine wine, sweetens with maturity.”

— Rae Lori

“Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’s granite substance is something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“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

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

— Samuel Johnson

“When one’s world was impermanent, difficult endeavors, like procuring justice or balancing the ecology, need never be attempted. One need only make contributions to…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“Oh, aging is ruddy unbearable! The I's we were yearn to breathe the world's air again, but can they ever break out from these…

— David Mitchell

“Listen then these are the charms And will I see your pleasure stretched An even dozen they crowd the tomb You can read the…

— Steven Erikson

“We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the “fresh life within” that age reveals…

— Joan D. Chittister

“Live for the gifts the fragrant-breasted Muses send, for the clear, the singing, lyre, my children. Old age freezes my body, once so lithe,…

— Sappho

“Encircled by the social thoughts of Christmas-time, still let the benignant figure of my childhood stand unchanged! In every cheerful image and suggestion that…

— Charles Dickens