Quotes on Aging

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"

If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.