Quotes on Age

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.

song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What is gone is gone... What is sea-born dies on land, Soft is trod upon. What is given burns the hand - What is gone is gone... Here is there, and high is low; All may be undone. What is true, no two men know - What is gone is gone... Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose - What is gone is gone.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.

Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

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

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.