#ageing

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #ageing




It wasn't getting easier because it isn't supposed to get easier. Midlife was a bitch, and my educated guess was that the climb only got steeper from here. Carl Jung put it perfectly: "Thoroughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life," he wrote. "Worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will by evening have become a lie." ... I was writing a new program for the afternoon of life. The scales tipped away from suffering and toward openheartedness and love. [p. 182]


Dani Shapiro


#age

... forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on.


Julian Barnes


#ageing #life #age

The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.


Roman Payne


#aging #growing-old #life #payne #time

. . . What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune, blessed with a sound constitution and a firm will


Stella Gibbons


#good-fortune #happiness #long-life #age

I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.


Rachel Weisz


#aspects #happening #i #i think #inside

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.


Rowan D. Williams


#age #ageing #anxiety #communicates #culture

The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe.


Edward Grey


#catastrophe #cause #day #emperor #german

Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that...


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#beauty #gloria-gilbert #youth #age

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.


Thandie Newton


#am #babies #despite #drawbacks #having

I looked at the group of human remains that languished in the corner and smiled at them. It occurred to me that their very presence was testimony to the moral emptiness of the universe and the mechanical brutality with which it destroys the parts it no longer needs.


Carlos Ruiz Zafón


#death #nature #age