"The hare grows old as she plays..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats

“That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.”

“It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.”

“It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is”

“Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”

“It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.”

“I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.”

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,So do our minutes hasten to their end;Each changing place with that which goes before,In sequent toil all forwards do contend.”

“Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.”

“It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.”