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Quotes About Age

Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.
~ Sarah Dessen
People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less.
~ Sarah Dessen
What is it about immortality? With the right sword and shield, we think we can fend off anger, fear, and hatred. If our legs are strong enough, we think we can outrun age, loss, and death.
~ Sarah Kay
Devoted to principles of liberty, equality, and religious tolerance -- which, dear internet, is not necessarily the same thing as satanism -- Masonic lodge became the de facto clubhouses of the Age of Reason.
~ Sarah Vowell
I am invariably the odd man out on tours like this. The only people who take them are kids who are forced to endure them and elderly retirees. I am always either the oldest person on a tour, or the youngest. I prefer to be the youngest if only because usually that means I'm the prettiest by default.
~ Sarah Vowell
And as the age of godlessness increases, all remnants of morality will disappear, until people will eat the flesh of their own family members and – as they are already doing – engage in sex acts with less discrimination then the hogs and dogs.
~ Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
The definition of sin is clear: disobedience against the laws of God. But the age is so dark in ignorance that people defiantly deny that there is even such a thing as sin. Their defiant disobedience is itself the essence of sin.
~ Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
Of course, in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too.
~ Saul Bellow
Anyway, it was an age of spiritual exhaustion—all the old dreams were dreamed out. I was angry; I burned like that furnace; reading more, sick with rage.
~ Saul Bellow
He was a splendid old man, only partly fraudulent, and what more can you ask of anyone?
~ Saul Bellow
We are survivors, in this age, so theories of progress ill become us, because we are intimately acquainted with the costs. To realize that you are a survivor is a shock.
~ Saul Bellow
Because of unhappiness, at a certain age, the brain starts to die back.
~ Saul Bellow
Now I was too old to be a pupil, and Ravelstein didn't believe in adult education. It was far too late for me to Platonize. And what people called culture was nothing but a fancier term for their ignorance.
~ Saul Bellow
makes his day to greet the aged Greek Patriarch. It does a lot for me, too, I must say. The Patriarch is ancient, densely bearded up to the eye sockets, faltering a little as he walks toward us. He kisses Kollek on both cheeks, and with warmth. He sits in a comfortable chair to the left of his throne. We are served coffee and seven-star Greek brandy. The conversation, in French and English, is lively.
~ Saul Bellow
The problem of corrupt clergy haunts God's family in every age. Priests who misuse and abuse their authority inflict untold damage upon the people of God.
~ Scott Hahn
alter kocker like me. Street-word is Hal hired Coral
~ Scott Turow
He remarked as much to Charlotte on his return, and she was inclined to agree with him. 'As life draws us along,' she replied, 'we think we are acting of our own volition, ourselves choosing what we shall do and what we shall enjoy; but when we look more closely we see they are only the intentions and inclinations of the age which we are being compelled to comply with.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To wisdom's final fruit, profoundly true: Of freedom and of life he only is deserving Who every cay must conquer them anew. Thus here, by danger girt, the active day Of childhood, manhood, age will pass away.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To wisdom's final fruit, profoundly true: Of freedom and of life he only is deserving Who every day must conquer them anew. Thus here, by danger girt, the active day Of childhood, manhood, age will pass away.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
El diablo es viejo; envejeced, pues, para comprenderlo.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When your thirtieth year is over, A man's as good as dead.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time is master: age lies on the sand.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No es que, como se dice, la vejez nos haga niños, sino que nos alcanza siendo aún auténticos niños.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One who has passed the thirtieth year already is as good as dead-- it would be best to kill you off by then.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe