When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Quote by Arthur Christopher Benson

Topics: Age Quotes

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery...

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery...

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the...

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the...

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids...

Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids...

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate...

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate...

The one who loves you will make you weep.

The one who loves you will make you weep.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Oh, Misery, I have drunk thy cup of sorrow to its dregs, but I am...

Oh, Misery, I have drunk thy cup of sorrow to its dregs, but I am...

Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores...

Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores...

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect...

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect...

Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things,...

Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things,...

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.

Sorrows remembered sweeten present joys

Sorrows remembered sweeten present joys

Sorrow is the child of too much joy

Sorrow is the child of too much joy

Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your...

Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your...

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions!

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions!

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near...

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near...

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.