"I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."
― T. S. Eliot
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Age
More From T. S. Eliot
- "As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."
- "We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion."
- "You are the music while the music lasts."
More In Age
- "We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion."― Fred Allen
- "A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with."― Robert Brault
- "Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don’t care to make."― Debra Winger