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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes about Age

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

W. Somerset Maugham
Time, Memories, Age
Points of View Ch. 1

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

W. Somerset Maugham
Birthday, Time, Age
W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

W. Somerset Maugham
High School, Age, Emotion

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

W. Somerset Maugham
Judging, Age, Mature
W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.26, Random House

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Age, Aging
The Circle

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

W. Somerset Maugham
Maturity, Perfect, Age
W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

W. Somerset Maugham
Time, Lost Youth, Age
W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.164, Diversion Books

Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.

W. Somerset Maugham
Wise, Doubt, Age

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