Age - Quotes
Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.
When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.
Vagabonding is about using the prosperity and possibility of the information age to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions.
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
I do not fear death. I fear suffering. And I fear old age, though less so now that I am witnessing the tranquil and pleasant old age of my father. I am afraid of frailty, and of the absence of love. But death does not alarm me. It did not scare me when I was young, and I thought at the time that this was because it was such a remote prospect. But now, at sixty, the fear has yet to arrive. I love life, but life is also struggle, suffering, pain. I think of death as akin to a well-earned rest.
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road. My habits protect my life, but they would assassinate you.
On a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten - since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as before.
Old age is not in itself matter for sorrow; it is matter for thanks, if we have left our work done behind us.
Many children can do extraordinary things; we are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
The great moral questions of the present age are those about human rights, war, poverty, the vast disparities between rich and poor, the fact that somewhere in the third world a child dies every two and a half seconds because of starvation or remediable disease. The churches` obsessions over pre-marital sex and whether divorced couples can remarry in church appears contemptible in the light of this mountain of human suffering and need. By distracting attention from what really counts, and focusing it on the minor and anyway futile attempt to get people to conduct their personal lives only in ways the church permits, harm is done to the cause of good in the world.