The only consolation, even for someone like him who had been a good man in bed, was sexual peace: the slow, merciful extinction of his venereal appetite. At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world ...
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The scien...
Doyle: "What is it now, then?" Cordelia: "Isn't java supposed to be a coffee?" Doyle: "Ready to abandon the the Web project?" Cordelia: "No way. We have a chance here to make contact with the millions of people out there who are glued to their comput...
Gandalf: From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak I fought with the Balrog of Morgoth... Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountain side... Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time... The stars wheeled ...
[Marty is left-behind back in 1955, with the young Doc of then as his only hope to getting back to the future] Marty McFly: I'm sorry, Doc. It's all my fault you're stuck back there. I never should have let Biff get to me! Young Doc: Well, there are ...
I opened my eyes; how could I keep them shut when I could not sleep? The same darkness brooded over me; the same unfathomable black eternity which my thoughts strove against and could not understand. I made the most despairing efforts to find a word ...
Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
I love coming of age stories that have struggle.
Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
I had to deal with death at a really young age.
I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.
I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.
It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.
People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.
There's been a lot thrust on my shoulders at a very young age.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
