Quotes related to Psalm 90:12
How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!
— Thomas Becket
I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.
— John Updike
I wouldn't mind that as my epitaph.
— Julie Andrews
Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287—300).
— Karl Barth
Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.
— John Quincy Adams
I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.
— John Updike
How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
— Mark Twain
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
— Samuel Johnson
Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
— Henry Parry Liddon
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson