Age Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are…

— Gautama Buddha

The essence of decay is inactivity.

— Jack LaLanne

Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.

— Laozi

“Without conscious rituals of loss and renewal, individuals and societies lose the capacity to experience the sorrows and joy that are essential for feeling…

— Mircea Eliade

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone,…

— Marcel Proust

“For humans-trapped in biology-there was no mercy: we lived a while, we fussed around for a bit and died, we rotted in the ground…

— Donna Tartt

During times of loss, it's obvious that what we see is temporary. We have to accept that. But what lingers after loss is what…

— Lacey Sturm

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

— David LaChapelle

...You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you…

— Michelle Richmond

“We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way; this is something that transitory…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life seem less…

— Stefan Zweig

Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of…

— Vincent Van Gogh