Quotes About Age

O Fiend, whose talisman was that fatal symbol, wouldst thou leave nothing, whether in youth or age, for this poor sinner to revere?—such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.

It was not painful to behold this look; for, though dim, it had not the imbecility of decaying age.

A modern child could teach old Hepzibah more than old Hepzibah could teach the child.

It was one of those moments - which sometimes occur only at the interval of years - when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his minds age.

La gaiezza dei vecchi somiglia assai da vicino al riso dei bimbi: negli uni e negli altri l'allegria non nasce dallo spirito e dall'intelligenza, ma è appena un raggio di gioia che passa e illumina, come una carezza di sole, tanto il ramo verde e tenero quanto il tronco rugoso.

The young deemed themselves happy. The elder spirits, if they knew that mirth was but the counterfeit of happiness, yet followed the false shadow willfully, because at least her garments glittered brightest. Sworn triflers of a lifetime, they would not venture among the sober truths of life not even to be truly blest.

They looked neither older nor younger now; the beards of the aged were no whiter, nor could the creeping babe of yesterday walk on his feet today...

In the mortal age, death could not be bargained with. It had to be the same for scythes.

That's primordial ooze! It's brimming with microbes! Back in the Age of Mortality, this single basin could have wiped out entire populations. It was called 'disease.

I'm kind of bothered to be with Mackenzie right now, because she happens to be sucking on her favorite candy—a blue Ring Pop. It makes her look much younger than almost-eleven, and makes me feel like I'm a babysitter. It's also embarrassing to be around someone whose entire mouth has turned blue.

Chain of command knows no age restrictions, he once told Connor. You could be six, but if you were my superior, I'd still do as I was told.

He was either the victim of circumstance or a criminal the likes of whom had not been seen since the Age of Mortality. Rowan wished he knew which of the two it was.

Today's target was a woman of ninety-three who looked thirty-three, and who was constantly busy. When she wasn't looking at her phone she was looking in her purse; when she wasn't looking in her purse she was looking at her nails, or the sleeve of her blouse, or the loose button on her jacket. What does she fear in idleness? Citra wondered. The woman was so self- absorbed, she had no clue that she was under the scrutiny of a scythe, trailing her by only ten yards.

But . . . but I'm only ninety-six

What must life have been like in the Age of Mortality? Full of passions, both good and bad. Fear giving rise to faith. Despair giving meaning to elation.

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.

Înger al frumuseÈ›ii,È™tii feÈ›ele zbârcite, ?i groaza b?trâneÈ›ii È™i zbuciumul cumplit De-a mai citi în ochii ce cu-ochii i-am sorbit, Dezgustu-ascuns c?-atâtea iubiri au fost jertfite? Înger al frumuseÈ›ii,È™tii feÈ›ele zbârcite?

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity.

Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

we are a scene chalked out with the sick white brush of age

Prazan džep ima neku primjesu romantizma samo kada si jako mlad.

age is no crime but the shame of a deliberately wasted life among so many deliberately wasted lives is.