The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.
Jonathan Safran FoerMots clés love forty stapler staples tape
Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.
Kevin BarryMots clés aging exhaustion passions forty
And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.
Kevin BarryMots clés life acceptance aging clarity realization forty
The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.
Colleen McCulloughNow answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.
Fyodor DostoevskyMots clés forty
I nearer than I was yesterday and further than I am today, tomorrow I'll be square one.
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