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Middle age6 quotes
The vague, crepuscular time; the time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth has passed, but old age has not yet arrived. — Ivan Turgenev · 1862No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face. — John Donne · 1631The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning. — Carl Jung · 1931Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to. — Donald Justice · 1967Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up the net. — Franklin P. Adams · 1944Life Begins at Forty. — Walter B. Pitkin · 1932Aging4 quotes
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face. — John Donne · 1631Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to. — Donald Justice · 1967Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up the net. — Franklin P. Adams · 1944Life Begins at Forty. — Walter B. Pitkin · 1932Beauty1 quote
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face. — John Donne · 1631Grace1 quote
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face. — John Donne · 1631Shrinking horizons1 quote
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to. — Donald Justice · 1967The road not taken1 quote
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to. — Donald Justice · 1967Youth vs. old age1 quote
The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning. — Carl Jung · 1931