Quotes about Aging
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
You see, now fear often fingers your heart,
and at times the world seems only distant news;
the old trees guard your childhood for you
as an ever more ancient memory.
Solitude [...] is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
When you`re a grown-up, you take it for granted that things are going to change no matter how much you try to maintain the status quo [...]. It`s only when you`re a teenager that you talk about change constantly and believe in your heart that it never really happens.
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
My heart is still bathed in the fierce sun of passion,
All spring is in bloom there, by spring breezes tossed,
But look how my hair turns hoary and ashen,
Its raven black touched by the premature frost.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
All you arrive at in the end
is a sad, washed-out, sandy plain,
you gaze about, take it in, bend
a wise head, nod; hope is in vain.