John Updike Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

  John Updike

  Kings, Hero, Writing

• Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.

  John Updike

  Doors, Age, Events

  John Updike (2012). “Telephone Poles and Other Poems”, p.86, Knopf

• President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?

  John Updike

  Age, President, Lips

• Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get so old and you sort of give up in some way. You've had your period of angst, your period of religious desperation, and you've arrived at a philosophical position where you don't need, or you can't bear, to look at it.

  John Updike

  Religious, Giving Up, Philosophical

• What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.

  John Updike

  Age, Littles, Like You

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.524, Random House

• Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out.

  John Updike

  Sex, Black, Age

  John Updike (1981). “Rabbit is Rich: Rabbit Redux ; Rabbit, Run”

• Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

  John Updike

  Wisdom, Time, Ideas

  1992 In the New Yorker, Nov.

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