#wi

Oh how the candles will be lit and the wood of worm burn in a fiery dust. For on all Hallow's Eve will the spirits come to play, and only the fruit of thy womb will satisfy their endless roaming. ↗

— Solange nicole

#hallows #new-age #solange #wicca-poem #age

He may be old now, but he is still a hero in their eyes ↗

— Loretta Livingstone

#hero #old #winner #worth-it #age

People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am, I really do. But people never notice. People never notice anything. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#age

I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#wickedness #age

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#amorality #corruption #cynicism #growing-old #hopelessness

Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.] ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#age

Love is meant to be sipped, rather than chugged, like a glass of wine you drink strait from the bottle.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#funny #humor #love #wine #age

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. ↗

— John Hersey

#books #death #hiroshima #japan #ways-to-die

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.Nothing does --- except wrinkles.It's true,some wines improves with age.But only if the grapes were good in the first place ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#age

Well, you know, I might try out for the musical," I say real quick. [...] She nods and says, "You should. We need guys." [...] She smiles and says, "Break a leg" as I walk out. That was uncalled for. "Bitch," I say under my breath as the door closes. ↗

— Brent Crawford

#will-carter #music