Letter Quote by Philip Larkin

“It’s not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made worse by…

— Thomas H. Cook

“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

“The importance of my old life is dimming as I move toward the bright light I've seen once before. It's allowing me to come…

— Lurlene McDaniel

“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

“I suspect, even more importantly, the aged are hidden away so that we do not remember that one day we shall all walk that…

— J. Nozipo Maraire

“She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always be their…

— Simon Van Booy

“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. The mild serenity of age takes the place…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“One has a few moments that are tolerable--one breathes,as it were,again;one remembers things,but one hardly hopes.I hope for the New Age-that is all-which will…

— Lytton Strachey

“Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.”

— Clarice Lispector

“It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment - or…

— Susan Sontag

“give you a nostalgia for a people and a soil you have never known, but which is in your blood, mysteriously there in your…

— Henry Miller

“What if experience is disappointment, and a human’s old age has no sense, and all what we acquire in our lifetime is a habit…

— Lara Biuts