Outlived Quotes

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.