Now is the age of anxiety.

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one...

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one...

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called...

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called...

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it...

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it...

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is...

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is...

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own...

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own...

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of...

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of...

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.