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Ageing Quotes (page 58)

At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare. Albert Camus
Robinson Jeffers quote: "To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand years Will Hardly..."
To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand years Will Hardly leach,” he thought, “this dust of that fire. Robinson Jeffers
The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age. Plato
Anne Rice quote: "I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world..."
I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste. Anne Rice
Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks older people, and here i am afflicted with it at my tender age. Madeleine L'Engle
Oscar Wilde quote: "Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age...."
Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. Oscar Wilde
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of... Oscar Wilde
It has occurred to me, brother, that wisdom may not be the end to everything. Goodness and kindness are, perhaps, beyond wisdom. Is it not possible that the ultimate end is music and gaiety and a dance of joy? Wisdom is the oldest of all things. Wisdom is all head and no heart. Behold, brother, you are being crushed under the weight of your head. You are dying of old age while you are yet a child. James Stephens
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "We are the heirs of the ages"
We are the heirs of the ages Theodore Roosevelt
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over."
Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over. Ernest Hemingway
Julian Barnes quote: "Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age..."
Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death. Julian Barnes
Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back. Richard Bach
But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't. Julia Cameron
I am a very old man. How old I do not know. It is possible I am a hundred, maybe more. I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men do. Edgar Rice Burroughs
We were both at a delicate age, when the mere fact that we went to different schools and lived two train stops apart was all it took for me to feel our worlds had changed completely Haruki Murakami

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