Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.
Charles FrazierTags: age
Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...
- Wang Lung
Tags: inspirational age time
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice ChevalierTags: age
I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
Sherman AlexieTags: age family parents childhood
The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.
Julius LesterTags: age
The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.
Sarah AshTags: life age time loss death grave tomb
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
At thirty a man suspects himself a fool;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;
In all the magnanimity of thought
Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Tags: age self-knowledge maturity
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth...
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