Age Quotes - Page 8

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.

Beauty is not the flawless perfection of youth, but the fine lines, scars, and wisdom which only living can give you.

Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

...real age, as I came to see from the genuine pieces that passed through my hands, was variable, crooked, capricious, singing here and sullen there, warm asymmetrical streaks on a rosewood cabinet from where a slant of sun had struck it while the other side was as dark as the day it was cut.

Growing age can kill the beauty, not the style.

Sex in the twenties is like a helicopter raring to take off vertically, but twenty years later, it is like a vintage plane roaring and racing to a reluctant take off!

It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace-the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.

I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.

Age is just reality we create for ourselves.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively.

If people respect your age and not your personality, then it's time for you to do some urgent introspection.

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in a lifetime’s view? It weighed on him.

Love is the reflection of a broken heart in a shattered mirror...

I'm thirty-four."

"You don't look thirty-four."

"That's because I'm not married." Mae's smile felt as if it were set in concrete. "Marriage tends to age a woman.

Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did not need to unleash my pain on the world around me. Instead, I taught myself to ignore it. I did not realize that the pain was eating away at my soul.

we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men... This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77)