#age

Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year. ↗

— May Sarton

#age

He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#philosophy #solitude #age

He did not want to feel old. He did not want to feel the weight of his age hovering above him, mocking him out of the core of a man’s pride, waiting to descend upon his mind and body. ↗

— William Sarabande

#age

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212). ↗

— Carter Lindberg

#history-of-thought #intellectual-history #age

Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to ↗

— Edith Wharton

#learning #age

Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#folly #wisdom #age

I look at the others, simpering courtiers and visiting dignitaries, all unsuspecting of what is to come. A merciful man should spare them, but I had mercy cut out of me at a young age. ↗

— A.F. Stewart

#curse #magic #ruined-city #wizard #age

So now we are young still but a better sort of young. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#youth #age

..Thirty's the end of being young, forty is where you stop fooling yourself. ↗

— Stephen King

#age

Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice; reading books in middle age is like looking at the moon in one's courtyard; and reading books in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#perception #age