Quotes by Herzen, Alexander

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit >>

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or ev >>

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it >>

Quotations about Age and Aging

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or ev >>

Grow old with me the best is yet to come. >>

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of d >>

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander