Age Quotes

... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner putrefaction is concealed for a few decades, that is all.

~ David Mitchell

She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.

~ Margaret Atwood

It’s really difficult to talk about dead people, but it’s even harder to talk about dead young women. It’s because from the time they die, they’ll be young forever. On the other hand, for us, the survivors, every year, every month, every day, we get older.Sometimes, I feel like I can feel myself aging from one hour to the next. It’s a terrible thing, but that’s reality.

~ Haruki Murakami

He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly old and crippled. Turned out the rope didn't care if you noticed every daisy on the path to the gallows.

~ Chris Cleave

This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can’t get fresh fruit in the shops.

~ Geoff Ryman

When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in a lifetime’s view? It weighed on him.

~ John Jeremiah Sullivan

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

~ Orhan Pamuk

People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion—these are the two things that govern us. And yet—

~ Oscar Wilde

Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.

~ Ann Brashares

I’m thirty-six years old, but I don’t feel like it. Some days I feel like I’m twenty-one, some days I feel like I’m pushing sixty.

~ Sarah Colonna

A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.

~ Miguel Syjuco

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

~ Roland Barthes

Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.

~ Anonymous

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so would I?

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

All would live long but none would be old.

~ Benjamin Franklin

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.

~ George Saville

An old man loved is Winter with flowers.

~ German Proverb

An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

But Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe and on my jolitee It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age alias! that al wole envenyme Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon ther is namoore to telle The bren as I best kan now most I selle.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be The last of life for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth a whole I plant Youth shows but half Trust God see all nor be afraid.

~ Robert Browning

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

~ Anthony Powell

I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women for example I think they deserve to have more than 12 years between the ages of 28 and 40.

~ James Thurber

I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

~ Harold Lloyd

I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.

~ Konrad Adenauer

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52 even if that makes my sons illegitimate.

~ Nancy Lady Astor

If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years) I'd have taken better care of myself.

~ James Hubert Blake

If the young only knew if the old only could.

~ French Saying

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

~ William Shakespeare

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.

~ Richard Hughes

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.

~ Lord Cecil

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

~ Gerald Brenan

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

~ T. S. Eliot

The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.

~ Jacques Bainville

There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

~ Old Saying

Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent -that is to triumph over old age.

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty interest after interest attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

~ William Hazlitt

Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.

~ Anonymous

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

~ Arnold Bennett