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“Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.”

Light Age Faith Left Grows Goes On Sorrow Pure Solitude Shining Old Age Revelations

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.”

Helping Age Night Time Grief Sorrow Old Age Wrinkles Morrow Pilgrimage Pluck Sullen

Book:The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works

Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works

“I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.”

Ifs Care Age Spirit Childhood Youth Sorrow Old Age Fearful Womanhood Anticipate Old Woman

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”

Ifs Matter Done Age Time Left Behinds Sorrow Aging Old Age Thanks Birthday Work Done

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.”

Age Sorrow Aging Old Age

Author:Edith Wharton

“There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.”

Giving May Age Differences Grief Share Youth Sorrow Remains Burden Old Age Grieving

Book:The Trimmed Lamp

Source: The Trimmed Lamp

“I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.”

Source: The Consolation of Philosophy

“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.”

Doe Age Literature Wish Causes Marriage Sorrow Old Age Wedding Sisterhood Fleeing

Author:Hesiod