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Quotes about Age

When I was five years old, the world was incomprehensible.  When I was thirteen, it seemed to me much smaller, much dirtier, and depressingly predictable.  Today it still seems muddled, but once again - although in a different way - as complex as when I was a child.  With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations.  I don't have the energy to start over again.  To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.

Peter Hoeg
Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow
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Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

Carl Gustav Jung : Swiss psychiatrist, student of Freud & founder analytic psychology
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Source: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960) p. 5
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If you are old and have the shakes,
If all your bones are full of aches,
If you can hardly walk at all,
If living drives you up the wall,
If you're a grump and full of spite,
If you're a human parasite,
THEN WHAT YOU NEED IS WONKA-VITE!

Roald Dahl
Source: Vile Verses, Page: 20 (Willy Wonka's Wonka-Vite)
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'Tis a maxim with me to be young as long as one can: there is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth; those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity, which make all the happiness of life. To my extreme mortification I grow wiser every day.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1690 - 1762)
Source: The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin
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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
 
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"With age come the inner, the higher life.
 Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?"

~~Elizabeth Cady Stanton~

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
 
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What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy.

Viktor E. Frankl : Jewish psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor, founder of Logotherapy & author of "Man's Search for Meaning"
Viktor Frankl (1905 - 1997)
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
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Age is a number which puts us in chronological order of time.  Age does not have to dictate how old we feel or act.

Kris Surat
 
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I fear that you will believe as we all believe that we can keep breaking into our store of time without counting.  Our lives seem infinite until we reach in one day to find how little of them is left.

Marlena De Blasi
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We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair.

Richard LaGravenese
Source: P.S. I Love You, screenplay by Richard LaGravenese & Steven Rogers based on the 2004 novel by Cecelia Ahern
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It is never to late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot : English novelist, pen name of Mary Ann Evans
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
 
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Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

Jim Fiebig
 
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Anaïs Nin : American-French writer
Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
 
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Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

J.R.R. Tolkien : Gaia Child
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings
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The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them.

Thomas Berry : Gaia Explorer
Thomas Berry
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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.

Thomas Szasz (1920 - ?)
 
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YOU'RE ONLY OLD ONCE.

Sol Luckman
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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up...

Pablo Ruiz Picasso : Spanish painter & founder of cubism
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
Source: Pablo Picasso
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"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost."
"And old men?"
"Of what they have not found."

David Berlinski
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"Remember that Divine Grace is a Blessing as we are alive and well in The Age of Remembrance !"

Francis E. Revels - Bey
Source: Brother Francis Revels - Bey's signature phrase.
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Grown-ups like numbers. When you tell them about a new friend, they never ask questions about what really matters. They never ask: 'What does his voice sound like?' 'What games does he like best?' 'Does he collect butterflies?' They ask: 'How old is he?' 'How many brothers does he have?' 'How much does he weigh?' 'How much money does his father make?' Only then do they think they know him.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery : Gaia Explorer
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
Source: The Little Prince
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You're only as old as you think you are...if you think at all

Papa Smurf
Source: Papa Smurf
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I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to.

Albert Einstein : German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist, famous for his theories of relativity.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
 
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When ignorant people see someone who is old, they are disgusted and horrified, even though they too will be old some day.  I thought to myself:  I don't want to be like the ignorant people.  After that, I couldn't feel the usual intoxication with youth anymore.

When ignorant people see someone who is sick, they are disgusted and horrified, even though they too will be sick some day.  I thought to myself:  I don't want to be like the ignorant people.  After that, I couldn't feel the usual intoxication with health anymore.

When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day.  I thought to myself:  I don't want to be like the ignorant people.  After then, I couldn't feel the usual intoxication with life anymore

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha : Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: AN III.39, interpreted
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People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them. 

Condorcet
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We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

Emily Dickinson : American poet
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Source: The Life & Letters of Emily Dickinson
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he who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.

Philip Jason
 
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It is not easy for a man to be as great as a mountain or a forest.  But that is why the creator gave them to us as teachers.  Now that I am old I Iook once more toward them for lessons, instead of trying to understand the ways of men. They tell me to be patient.  They tell me I cannot change what is, I can only hope to change what will become.  Let the grasses grow over our scars, they say, and let flowers bloom over our wounds.

Kent Nerburn
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Age is a state of mind.
Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people.
All the more talented and exceptional of us;
are sometimes old,
just as we are sometimes happy,
and sometimes sad.

Hermann Hesse : German writer, winner of 1946 Nobel prize for literature
Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
 
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