Wendell Berry Quotes

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

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

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

When I went to Munich, I was perhaps a little too young.

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

O Time and change! - with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!

If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

The best years are behind me.

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.