Top 38 Quotes About Beauty And Old Age
#1. That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
Ovid
#2. I like being a part of something. I like participating and being part of a group.
Andie MacDowell
#3. Her face was plastered with layers of powder and looked like a face of stone. And with her noble profile, she seemed, on the triangular, moss-covered pedestal hidden by her cape, like a crumbling goddess in a park.
Marcel Proust
#4. There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.
Jessica Brown Findlay
#5. Death is easy when you've already tried to find it.
Pierce Brown
#6. She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace the beauty of age as early as possible.
George Eliot
#8. Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
Dodie Smith
#9. Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?
R. Buckminster Fuller
#10. The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
Democritus
#11. My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
Seth Godin
#12. I get glimmers of the bad nineteenth-century teaching which has made Mother remove God from the realm of mystery and beauty and glory, but why do people half my age think that they don't have faith unless their faith is small and comprehensible and like a good old plastic Jesus?
Madeleine L'Engle
#13. Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'
- All my old loves will be returned to me
Carolyn Turgeon
#14. What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.
Matthew Arnold
#15. All the nightmares that had ever plagued a woman alone in the dark loomed in her mind.
Nora Roberts
#16. So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.
John Milton
#17. Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
Robert Henri
#18. Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#19. In strength, the fear of enemies, In beauty, the fear of old age, In knowledge, the fear of defeat, In virtue, the fear of scandal, In the body, the fear of death. In this life all is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless. (In Search of God and
Swami Vivekananda
#20. Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.
Leslie Jamison
#22. You know, Annie, a long time ago an old man told me beauty doesn't mean much in a woman. It disappears with age. But he said some women have something better. They have a special glow that lasts all their life and just gets richer. You're like that. You really shine.
Ellen O'Connell
#23. When I behold the heavens as in their prime,
And then the earth (though old) still clad in green,
The stones and trees, insensible of time,
Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen
Anne Bradstreet
#24. Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
David Hume
#25. If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.
Kenneth Burke
#26. Who gave thee, O Beauty,
The keys of this breast,
Too credulous lover
Of blest and unblest?
Say, when in lapsed ages
Thee knew I of old?
Or what was the service
For which I was sold?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27. Age in itself gives substance - what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing strangeness of language is part of its beauty, in the same way that the cracks and darkening of an old painting become part of its luminosity in the viewer's mind.
Jane Hirshfield
#29. Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.
Pierre De Ronsard
#30. For what benefit is beauty, the greatest blessing of heaven, if it be mixed with affectation? What youth, if corrupted with the severity of old age? Lastly,
Erasmus
#31. How old are you?"
"Ten," answered Tangle.
"You don't look like it," said the lady.
"How old are you, please?" returned Tangle.
"Thousands of years old," answered the lady.
"You don't look like it," said Tangle.
"Don't I? I think I do. Don't you see how beautiful I am!
George MacDonald
#32. Noah crouched over Gansey's body. He said, for the last time, 'You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not.'
Gansey died.
'Goodbye,' Noah said. 'Don't throw it away.'
He quietly slid from time.
Maggie Stiefvater
#33. Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. After you discover your purpose, you have to build a platform for your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#35. I'm an actress. In this sense, my profession is less complex than that of a model. True, they're into beauty in Hollywood, and it is age-related, but you can't put a girl with hot lips and no wrinkles and say: 'That's the mother of a 14-year-old.'
Ayelet Zurer
#36. A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Baltasar Gracian
#37. The cup-sized breasts of that twenty-four year old impatient beauty seemed a dozen years younger than she, with those pale squinty nipples and firm form.
Vladimir Nabokov
#38. The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.
Isabel Allende
