Philip Larkin - Age Quotes

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Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium.

Philip Larkin

Life is first boredom, then fear.
Whether or not we use it, it goes,
And leaves what something hidden from us chose,
And age, and then the only end of age.

Philip Larkin

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

Philip Larkin

My age fallen away like white swaddling
Floats in the middle distance, becomes
An inhabited cloud.

Philip Larkin