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 FoerTag: 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 BarryTag: 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 BarryTag: 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 DostoevskyTag: forty
I nearer than I was yesterday and further than I am today, tomorrow I'll be square one.
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