Quotes About Age

At seventy-two years old, women can still run roughshod over your heart. That's something that never occurred to me, and I find it terrifying, but oddly reassuring.

There is no evidence that the importance of friendship declines in any manner with age.

Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.

Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill." This is partly because time lasts forever, when you're two. Half an hour for me was a week for my son.

When we first began to perceive the unknown, chaotic, non-animal world, we used categories that had originally evolved to represent the pre-human animal social world. Our minds are far older than mere humanity.

There is no evidence that the importance of friendship declines in any manner with age.* All causes of mortality appear to be reduced among adults with high-quality social networks, even when general health status is taken into consideration.

If Baudelaire, in hieroglyphics of the soul, had deciphered the return of the age of the sentiment and ideas, Poe, in the field of morbid psychology had more especially investigated the domain of the soul.

This imbecile sentimentality, combined with a ferociously practical sense, represented the dominant motive of the age.

No estoy enamorado de ti. Ni siquiera despiertas en mí una de esas nostalgias aberrantes que los hombres de mi edad sienten con la proximidad de una vida joven: eres un ser inferior, Iris Mateluna, un trozo de existencia primaria que rodea a un útero reproductor tan central a tu persona que todo el resto de tu ser es cáscara superflua.

I'm not even in love with you. You don't even awaken in me one of those aberrant nostalgia that men my age feel with the proximity of a young life: you are an inferior being, Iris Mateluna, a piece of primary existence that surrounds a reproductive uterus so central to your person that all the rest of your being is a superfluous shell…

Parece qu están demasiado viejitos para la vida y cansados de todo...

Il y a tant de vieux arbres!

La vida vale por el uso que de ella hacemos, por las obras que realizamos. No ha vivido más el que cuenta más años, sino el que ha sentido mejor un ideal; las canas denuncian la vejez, pero no dicen cuánta juventud la precedió.

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

Only the young have such moments .I don´t mean the very young, No. The very young have, properly speaking, no moments.

Is this what makes people old, then? Not age, or decrepitude, but grief?

Power makes you attractive; it even makes women love old men.

Un acte n'a plus du tout le même caractère, la même valeur ou le même sens, s'il est accompli par un riche ou un pauvre, un célibataire ou un père de six enfants, un vieillard ou une jeune fille

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.

Wie eine alte Tür weist jeder Mann von einem bestimmten Alter an historische Verwerfungen und Risse der einen oder anderen Art auf, und eine Frau, die ihn ernsthaft in Gebrauch nehmen möchte, muss darauf gefasst sein, das sie einiges zu schmirgeln und zu hobeln hat.

Next to the old man's dark gravity, the boy's jingling colorfulness seemed even noisier and more radiant. At

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!