age Quotes

“It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet, tender joy.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:age joy grief

“I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love. But the power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

topic:love age

“Even in his youth Florentino Ariza climbed up and down stairs with special care, for he had always believed that old age began with one's first minor fall and that death came with the second.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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“You're an old woman, Emily, and there's no fool like an old fool.”

― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

topic:age foolishness

“You take somebody old as hell, like old Spencer, and they can get a big bang out of buying a blanket.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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“Or what is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:youth age existence

“Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:wisdom age mind

“Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

topic:women men age

“They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld; and the women more horrible than the men . . . The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

topic:beauty age

“It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”

― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

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