Doubt Quote by samuel johnson

“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

“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

“Whatever we may think or affect to think of the present age, we cannot get out of it; we must suffer with its sufferings,…

— John Stuart Mill

“every age has its folly”

— Jill Lepore

“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

“Our age reminds one of the dissolution of the Greek city-state: Everything goes on as usual and yet there is no longer anyone who…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Am struck by paradoxical thought that youth is by no means the happiest time of life, but that most of the rest of life…

— E.M. Delafield

“I suppose if one lives to be old, one's entire waking life will be spent turning on the spit of recollection over the fires…

— Philip Larkin

“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

“A new generation is growing up in our midst, a generation actuated by new ideas and new principles. It is serious and enthusiastic for…

— James Joyce

But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new…

— James Joyce

“Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita