Aging Quotes

Boys believe nothing can hurt them, his doubt whispered. Grown men know better. ~ A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin I have lived to see strange days. ~ The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien He said something about punctuality being one of the minor virtues which we do not acquire until later in life. ~ To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf What is the meaning of life? That was all--a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark. ~ To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly. ~ The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper She was now forty years of age, childless, and with that inordinate passion for pleasure which is the secret of remaining young. ~ Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde "Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thank goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin." ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "At forty you stand upon the threshold of life, with values learned and rubbish cleared away. " ~ A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood "I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong." ~ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. ~ The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins