Decrepit Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated,…

— Anonymous

But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by…

— William H. Gass

And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging think amber…

— William Shakespeare

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

— Thomas Browne

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the…

— Francois Fenelon

A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events,…

— John Steinbeck

“the outlines of his figure were indistinct—but his features were the features of a deity; for the mantle of the night, and of the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and…

— Edwin Markham

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

— Douglas Coupland