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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.

Ernest Hemingway

Stichwörter: life age flight loss nostalgia

Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

Charles M. Schulz

Stichwörter: humor age

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Mark Twain

Stichwörter: age

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Oscar Wilde

Stichwörter: truth age woman secret discretion trust

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H.L. Mencken

Stichwörter: humor wisdom age old

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Salvador Dalí

Stichwörter: age youth ambition dreams dreaming

The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. They claim strength, these parents, and complete sanctuary. The weeping earth itself knows how desperate is the child's need for exactly that sanctuary. How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia.
Grownups can deal with scraped knees, dropped ice-cream cones, and lost dollies, but if they suspected the real reasons we cry they would fling us out of their arms in horrified revulsion. Yet we are small and as terrified as we are terrifying in our ferocious appetites.

Katherine Dunn

Stichwörter: age childhood adulthood

Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alfred Tennyson

Stichwörter: age poetry heroism ulysses

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

Chuck Palahniuk

Stichwörter: age