Quotes on Aging

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!'

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.