Choose a background or upload your own photo, then download a shareable quote image.

Your file stays in the browser; nothing is sent to the server.

Quote

  • When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic involved. It is the everlasting struggle of the soul to retain the joy of earth, whose fleeing distinguishes it from heaven, and whose retention is not accomplished without an inner knowledge of its futility.

    Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman / Author
    Copy Quote

Only Text Quote

When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic involved. It is the everlasting struggle of the soul to retain the joy of earth, whose fleeing distinguishes it from heaven, and whose retention is not accomplished without an inner knowledge of its futility.

⇛ Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (Author)
Copy Quote Text
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s love and Langston’s humor eventually succumbed to its corrosive force, each man finally forced to doubt art’s redemptive power, each man finally forced to withdraw, one to Africa, one to Europe, one deeper into the bowels of Harlem, but all of them in the same weary flight, all of them exhausted, bitter men, the devil at their heels.
Barack Obama 44th U.S. President
More by Mary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanAll Men quotes

App & Tools

Get Daily Quotes of QuoteForever App Make Your Picture Quotes, Download and Share

Top Authors

View All Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Share This Page