8 Quotes Tagged: growing-older

Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more harmonious than it did in reality, and even sweeter

A being who, as I grew older, lost imagination, emotion, a type of intelligence, a way of feeling things - all that which, while it made me sorry, did not horrify me. But what am I experiencing when I read myself as if I were someone else? On which bank am I standing if I see myself in the depths?

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.