#youth

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable. ↗

And you that sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended. ↗

— Lord Dunsany

#alveric #cynicism #lirazel #magic #youth

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#youth #age

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#gender #womanhood #women #youth #age

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty. ↗

— Megan Chance

#old #women #youth #age

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter? ↗

— Julian Barnes

#ageing #colour #excitement #perspective #youth

Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do! ↗

— Théophile Thoré

#carpe-diem #inspiration #regret #youth #age

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#age

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth. ↗

— China Miéville

#youth #age

It occured to me that we will never be young again. ↗