Quotes About Life

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

At my age, I'm envious of a stiff wind.

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love, but on the stage.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

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

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

Age is a bad traveling companion.

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.

In our daily lives problems are bound to arise. The biggest problems in our lives are the ones that we inevitably have to face, like old age, illness, and death. Trying to avoid our problems or simply not thinking about them may provide temporary rel.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?