The faded glittering in his eyes is like a falling star on a dull autumn's day.
Anna PaszkiewiczTags: age mysery silent-pain
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.
George OrwellRespect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.
Vera NazarianTags: age old respect authority generations young elders chastise
Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
Karl LagerfeldTags: life age time youth live old born lifestyle young fashion-designer
With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.
David LevithanEngland is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. It has rich relations who have to be kow-towed to and poor relations who are horribly sat upon, and there is a deep conspiracy of silence about the source of the family income. It is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts. Still, it is a family. It has its private language and its common memories, and at the approach of an enemy it closes its ranks. A family with the wrong members in control - that, perhaps is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
George OrwellTags: age family secrets conspiracy control privacy england defence
I think as you get older you become more of who you always were. You become a more concentrated version of yourself. You really learn who you are, why you're unique, who you've always been [...] There's a winnowing away of nonessentials, sometimes essentials, it's true, but what remains is your core, your essence, the real 'you,' and you realize you're still you without what you've lost as long as you still have all your marbles--or most of them anyway.
Stacey McGlynnThey are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then—how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal.
Daphne du MaurierWith age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
Oscar WildeThose of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
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