"Now is the age of anxiety." — Wystan Hugh Auden

"Now is the age of anxiety."

— Wystan Hugh Auden

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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden has 314 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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