I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in my eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm gro...
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
And then I laugh, because it's so ridiculous and so gorgeous and it's all I an do to not melt into a fit of giggles. So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wrec...
And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory."--Fidelis O Mkparu
They say that as one grows older one mellows, become more tolerant. Perhaps. Sometimes I think it is more a stripping off, a peeling away of irrelevancies. But somehwere in youth, as childhood is left...
Song of elli (old age)What is plucked will grow again,What is slain lives on,What is stolen will remainWhat is gone is gone...What is sea-born dies on land,Soft is trod upon.What is given burns the ha...
Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters.
Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.
I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.
Do not forget you mother, when she is old.
I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am empty...
At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.
A person in her twenties has been a child for most of her life, but as time goes by that portion that is childhood becomes smaller and smaller, more and more distant, more and more faded, though they...
There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.
Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.