Quotes about "Time & Aging"

It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men. ”

Now is the age of anxiety. ”

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. ”

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. ”

Music is the best means we have of digesting time. ”

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. ”

It would be presumptuous to say writing a book would be a sufficient gesture, but if people were more preoccupied with the past, maybe the events that overwhelm us would be fewer. ”

If you're based in two places, on a bad day you see only the disadvantages everywhere. On a bad day, returning to Germany brings back all kinds of spectres from the past. ”

Going home is not necessarily a wonderful experience. It always comes with a sense of loss and makes you so conscious of the inexorable passage of time. ”

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them. ”