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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

— Samuel Beckett

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

— Joseph Addison

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

— Epictetus

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

— Pericles

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

— Aeschylus

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

— Pope Benedict XVI

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

— Theodor Adorno

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

— Vaclav Havel

✗Opposing Perspectives

You take a 30-year-old. To him, history began the day he was born. He doesn't know how cold it was 70 years ago unless he's told. He doesn't care. He thinks what's happening now is either the best or the worst, whatever it is, ever. Everybody thinks that.

— Rush Limbaugh

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

— Aristotle

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

— Philip James Bailey