Friendship And Aging Quotes & Sayings

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. — Roger Scruton

Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening. — Sharon Salzberg

I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory. — Fidelis O. Mkparu

The thing about old friends is not that they love you, but that they know you. They remember that disastrous New Year's Eve when you mixed White Russians and champagne, and how you wore that red maternity dress until everyone was sick of seeing the blaze of it in the office, and the uncomfortable couch in your first apartment and the smoky stove in your beach rental. They look at you and don't really think you look older because they've grown old along with you, and, like the faded paint in a beloved room, they're used to the look. And then one of them is gone, and you've lost a chunk of yourself. The stories of the terrorist attacks of 2001, the tsunami, the Japanese earthquake always used numbers, the deaths of thousands a measure of how great the disaster. Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time. — Anna Quindlen

Love is the sweetest madness of life. — Debasish Mridha

Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds. — Kenneth Fisher

Rabbit and Owl are aging bachelors whose respective megalomania and fussiness are tempered only by their mutual friendship, of which the less said, the better. — Frederick C. Crews

Say what you want about aging,
it's still the only way to have old friends. — Robert Breault

Somehow she knew there would be an unspoken truce on their unspoken battle over God knew what when they were old. They could both surrender to their innate grumpiness. It was going to be a lovely relief. — Liane Moriarty

I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere, and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its original inhabitants. — Mary Shelley

Heroes and cowards feel the same fear; heroes just act differently. — Dan Millman

As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while. — Luke Nosek

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it. — Simone De Beauvoir

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future. — Steve Jobs

In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt to be burdened with reservations, constraints, inhibitions. — Anthony Powell

He remembers what I forget and I remember what he forgets. It's too late for either of us to make another old friend. — Abigail Thomas

Odd thing, ain't it ... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls." "That's mob rule! — Terry Pratchett

Though my hair has grown grey now, and my sight dim, and my heart cold with years, and ennui, and disappointment, and treachery of friends, and yet I have but to lean back in my arm-chair and think, and those sweet figures comes rising up before me out of the past, with their smiles, and their kindnesses, and their bright tender eyes! — William Makepeace Thackery

You asked me why I saved you. You have forgotten a villain who tried to carry you off one night,- a villain to whom the very next day you brought relief upon their infamous pillory. A drop of water and a little pity are more than my whole life can ever repay. You have forgotten that villain; but he remembers."

~Quasimodo to Esmeralda~ — Victor Hugo

He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each grasps a silken edge of memory that billows between them and softens the long fall. — Lauren Groff

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies. — Yoko Ono

The media coverage for Donald Trump has been almost cheerleading. I'm convinced it's because many in the press want him to be the nominee. — Marco Rubio

In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds. — Maajid Nawaz