Aging Quote by Saul Bellow

“It was the raging stubbornness of living organisms that simply would not give in.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“As it so often does, an impulsive, daring suddenly - and too late - seemed seriously flawed in its conception and its inability to…

— Jean Ferris

“There were different ways of growing old, perhaps. Some withered first in body, others in mind, yet others in soul.”

— Elif Shafak

“He'd observed over the centuries that what made people old was when they could no longer keep up with change. It's the beginning of…

— Alma Katsu

“When you embrace foolishness, you enable it to continue.”

— Shellie R. Warren

“Life was not a reversible commodity. Things passed away, never to return: species, hopes, years.”

— Clive Barker

“All things, my son, transmute into old age, life diminishes, everything declines, the proliferation of kinds is a mere illusion, and no one knows…

— W.G. Sebald

“This was all of it, no doubt, the strange passing feeling that had come to me in the boat. Age. Vanity. The impossibility of…

— Sue Miller

“What it reminded me of was a biological dead end. A genetic retrogression. A freak accident of nature that stranded some organism up the…

— Haruki Murakami

“We think we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.”

— John Fowles

“Life was funny, and fickle, and often cruel. Sometimes the unworthy went on living, while those who deserved better was lost. Or not lost,…

— Nicholas Eames

“Nature, in her wisdom, seems to have arranged it so that men's stupidity should be ephemeral, and books make them immortal. A fool ought…

— Charles-Louis de Secondat, de la Brède et de Montesquieu