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.

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.

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!

'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.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

"With age come the inner, the higher life.
 Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?"

~~Elizabeth Cady Stanton~

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.

Age is a number which puts us in chronological order of time.  Age does not have to dictate how old we feel or act.

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.

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.

It is never to late to be what you might have been.

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

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

Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

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.

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.

YOU'RE ONLY OLD ONCE.

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

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost."
"And old men?"
"Of what they have not found."

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

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.

You're only as old as you think you are...if you think at all

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

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. 

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them. 

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

he who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.

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.

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.