Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
Chuck PalahniukStichwörter: age destruction
You're very old, aren't you?"
"Just as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
Stichwörter: age
The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.
Colleen McCulloughWhat Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew
Robert BrowningStichwörter: age poetry youth meaning growth
Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'
- All my old loves will be returned to me
Stichwörter: age love beauty hope french fairy-tale cinderella godmother
[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in The Dream of John Ball that men fight for things and then lose the battle, only to win it again in a shape and form that they had not expected, and then be compelled again to defend it under another name. We are all of us very good at self-persuasion and I strive to be alert to its traps, but a version of what Hegel called 'the cunning of history' is a parallel commentary that I fight to keep alive in my mind.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: life age history self-delusion battles hegel reminiscence self-persuasion william-morris
Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: wisdom age old-age ageing sources henry-kissinger
Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
Kate MillettTwenty-seven.”
His brow puckered, and he blinked over at her. “Twenty-seven hundred years, right?”
If he were speaking to Taliyah, yes. “No. Just twenty-seven plain, ordinary years.”
“You don’t mean human years, do you?”
“No. I mean dog years,” she said dryly, then pressed her lips together. Where was the filter that was usually poised over her mouth? Strider didn’t seem to mind, though. Rather, he seemed stupefied. Would Sabin have had the same reaction were he awake? “What’s so hard to believe about my age?” As the question echoed between them, a thought occurred to her and she blanched. “Do I look ancient?”
“No, no. Of course not. But you’re immortal. Powerful.
Stichwörter: humor age lords-of-the-underworld
Kaneria has competed in more than 50 Test series [sic] for Pakistan during his career.
BBCStichwörter: age cricket danish-kaneria misspeaking pakistan-national-cricket-team
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