Quotes on Aging

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.

Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.