Age Quotes

When You Are OldWHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

~ W.b. Yeats

I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes?I know you are unable to imagine this.Nevertheless, I can tell you that you will awake someday to find that your life has rushed by at a speed at once impossible and cruel. The most intense moments will seem to have occurred only yesterday and nothing will have erased the pain and pleasure, the impossible intensity of love and its dog-leaping happiness, the bleak blackness of passions unrequited, or unexpressed, or unresolved.

~ Meg Rosoff

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

~ Arthur Golden

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

~ George Orwell

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

~ Martin Amis

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

~ Andy Rooney

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

~ Karl Pilkington

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung

~ Pearl S. Buck

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

~ Ellen Degeneres

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

~ H.l. Mencken

Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

~ Charles M. Schulz

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

~ George Burns

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

~ Julian Barnes

Nat: Maybe you broke something.Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down!Nat: Ah, it's nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That's the system. Two years old, you stand up and then BOOM! seventy years later, you fall down again.

~ Herb Gardner

Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?

~ Julian Barnes

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

~ Oscar Wilde

THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow.

~ Suzy Kassem

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

~ Ernest Hemingway

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

~ Louise Penny

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

~ Oscar Wilde

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.

~ Isaac Asimov

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

~ Craig Ferguson

The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

~ Christopher Hitchens

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don't let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better.

~ Jayleigh Cape

Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.

~ Jodi Picoult

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

~ James Rozoff

A seeker of radical strenght Keeps everything on track, Feeble force yields at length, Not sure where to go back. When one can't find courage, And all the efforts seem vain, It's advised to fight like a sage: Be powerful like a bullet train! Too much work and no play Can make a brain go astray! Determined to live and stay Can lead life into a long way.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.

~ Fredrik Backman

Age is neither a limit nor an exception to realize your true potential or the way you want to live your life

~ Kashaf Shaikh (Co-Founder

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe