866 quotes found
“Aging and the prospect of dying by no means enhance the attractiveness of fictitious comforts to come in paradise, or the veracity of malicious myths about hellfire and damnation. Fear and feeblemi...”
“The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.”
“Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am mo...”
“Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”
“I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got o...”
“With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.”
“A useful education served women best, More thought. To learn how to grow old gracefully is perhaps one of the rarest and most valuable arts which can be taught to a woman. Yet, when beauty is all t...”
“Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.”
“Everyday is one less day.”
“a life can change in a tenth ofa second.or sometimes it can take70years.”
“The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Timethe big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutesand the clock pulver...”
“One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the exp...”
“She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she f...”
“It was difficult to imagine that a full day hadn't yet passed since we boarded the airliner in New York. I paused. Medieval man believed that one was placed beyond the touch of time, and therefore ...”
“Save your golden days as time goes byBefore golden years expire”
“The past has come apart events are vagueingthe future is inexploitable”
“If all women revealed their age, men would have nothing to hide from each other.”
“It is warm, I am alive, I am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so even, so tranquil, and so gentle as I have here, I am in an element that weakens me morally while strengthening me...”
“As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.”
“I can tell you this: there will be other girls, other disasters. And there will be nights to come, his life mostly behind him, when he will long to hurt like that again.”
