"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little." ― David Herbert Lawrence Topic(s): Age Tags: conscious, excessively More From David Herbert Lawrence "Money is our madness, our vast collective madness." "Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!" "People always make war when they say they love peace." More In Age "My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today."― Al Sharpton "We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it."― Frank A. Clark "Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."― Dwight D. Eisenhower