Quotes on Aging

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality.

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.

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

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.