Ellen Glasgow Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Long, Tragedy, Taught

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

• Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Reality, Age, Youth

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

• But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Age, Youth

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

• ...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Tired, Curiosity, Immature

• Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Retirement, Age, Twenties

• The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Attitude, Honor, Age

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