114 quotes found
“One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.”
“I spit into the face of Time That has transfigured me.”
“These wrinkles are nothingThese gray hairs are nothing,This stomach which sagswith old food, these bruisedand swollen ankles, my darkening brain,they are nothing.I am the same boymy mother used to ...”
“Matched with an aged wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race,That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.”
“...we're not eighteen anymore. We've lived. We've created things that last things of joy, and things of burden.”
“What do they think has happened, the old fools,To make them like this? Do they somehow supposeIt's more grown-up when your mouth hangs open and drools,And you keep on pissing yourself, and can't re...”
“Behold yon rough and flinty roadWhere youth, now youth no more,Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loavesHe cast away of yore.”
“While you keep ageing, your experience compensates for your lost brain power.”
“The tender spring upon thy tempting lipShows thee unripe; yet mayst thou well be tasted:Make use of time, let not advantage slip;Beauty within itself should not be wasted:Fair flowers that are not ...”
“Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate itevery time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover t...”
“Men's lives are not progressions, as conventionally rendered in history paintings, nor are they a series of facts that may be enumerated & in their proper order understood. Rather they are a series...”
“Without knowing why or how, I found myself in love with this strange Wanderess. Maybe I was just in love with the dream she was selling me: a life of destiny and fate; as my own life up until we me...”
“Even when you don't see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye”
“it is all clearer now than it was then. Rhea would say it is the vivid fabrications of an ageing mind. More likely, though, it is the clarity that comes from ageing - from the natural process of re...”
“Growing older doesn't mean that you are more mature than everyone who is younger than you. Maturity is a lot of things, and age has nothing to do with it.”
“Parents raise children then grow old, and their children forget the things their old parents did for them, because their brains dont remember before they grew selfish.There are buildings all over t...”
“It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by singing about it, interpreting it, by admiring it as a poet, idealizing it as an artist and by explai...”
“In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.”
“The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.”
“It has never been easy for me to understand the obliteration of time, to accept, as others seem to do, the swelling and corresponding shrinkage of seasons or the conscious acceptance that one year ...”
