Quotes About Fading Youth

#1. Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

Isaac Barrow

#2. Your loveliness is not a mask, layered over a rotten core. It blossoms from the beauty inside.

Terry Goodkind

#3. Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

George Peele

#4. Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we
we divine it.

Sophie Swetchine

#5. You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

Gertrude Stein

#6. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

Hermann Hesse

#7. While most people
converse it all away
I
write it down.

Charles Bukowski

#8. She was about forty: In her youth She had been a Beauty; But her charms had been upon that large scale which can but ill sustain the shock of years: However She still possessed some remains of them.

Matthew Gregory Lewis