life reflections quotes

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.