260 quotes found
“If I had my life to live over I wish I could be a great pianist or something.”
“There is no armour against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.”
“Oh God don't envy me I have my own pains.”
“I have known no man of genius who had not to pay in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual for what the gods had given him.”
“Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.”
“Oh I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.”
“Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.”
“Ambition having reached the summit longs to descend.”
“Wanting to change to improve a person's situation means offering him for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.”
“When I was fourteen I was the oldest I ever was. ... I've been getting younger ever since.”
“A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspir...”
“Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.”
“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”
“The middle years caught between children and parents free of neither: the past stretches back too densely it is too thickly populated the future has not yet thinned out.”
“It is not how old you are but how you are old.”
“When you become 100 life changes completely.”
“This is a youth-oriented society and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.”
“Old age believe me is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”
“It is so comical to hear oneself called old even at ninety I suppose!”
“Time-our youth-it never really goes does it? It is all held in our minds.”
