Aging Quote by Philip Larkin Download Open image “I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.” — Philip Larkin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aging Century My own My own life Quarter of a century Quarters Thirty Thirty years Years
“To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my journalistic phase,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“Half a century goes by in what seems like a year. Don't waste an hour in boredom, son, or wishing for tomorrow.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in the eighties, there was a real nostalgic streak for the fifties. Look at 'Back to the Future.' — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
I live a very international life, but when I come back to Hollywood, a town I love in a lot of ways, I have… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement. — Olivia De Havilland Copy Share Image
I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade. — Charles Durning Copy Share Image
“Boy to his dying grampa: "I am a century wide. I think that I have my literal age but am surrounded in a radius… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting, seats, and stone, And little… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, age, and… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long way back, and wrong rewards, And arrogant eternity.” — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.” — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“I sit in my room like Miss Havisham, about whom I have been reading this week. Better the Dickens you know than the Dickens… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“When I throw back my head and howl People (women mostly) say But you've always done what you want, You always get your way… — Philip Larkin 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