Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes

We can't get our youth back.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

Heavens, Mary, of course we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again.

I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.

When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

Today is my grandfather's birthday." "How old is he?" "Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being.

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.

To grow old is to grow remorseful.

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.