"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."
― Soren Kierkegaard
Topic(s):
Age
More From Soren Kierkegaard
- "Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid."
- "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
- "If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe."
More In Age
- "A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward."― Frank Lloyd Wright
- "Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage."― Hesiod
- "Every man over forty is a scoundrel."― George Bernard Shaw