Aging Quote by Michel Houellebecq Download Open image ““He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.”” — Michel Houellebecq ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aging Childhood Brief Children Doesn Know Infinity Infinity Childhood Know Infinity Youth
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“He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on… — Helen Hodgman Copy Share Image
“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.” — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“He knew everything when he started. The others can’t ever learn what he was born with.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“His forty-third year. His small time's end. His time- Who saw Infinity through the countless cracks In the blank skin of things, and died… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thirty-six years old and he knows less than when he started. With the difference that now he knows how little he'll always know.” — John Updike Copy Share Image
“He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Cause I don't think we ever really get over our childhood. It's always there, waiting.” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“In my life, I had known suffering, oppression, anxiety; I had never known boredom. I could see no objection to the endless, imbecile repetition… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“... I spent whole afternoons at Bon Marché looking at pullovers, there was no sense in going on like that.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Olga was nice, Olga was nice and loving, Olga loved him, he repeated to himself with a growing sadness as he also realised that… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“The problem is, it's just not enough to live according to the rules. Sure, you manage to live according to the rules. Sometimes it's… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Life sometimes offers you a chance, he thought, but when you are too cowardly or too indecisive to seize it life takes the cards… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
