Quotes About Age

The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.

When I turn up at a trendy party, all the youngsters look like they could be my illegitimate love children.

It's very tiring, being so old. But I do love living.

I didn't need to get married again. It's great to be in a situation in which you're happy. But, you know, I'm not tortured by love. I'm not tortured by chagrin d'amour. I'm old now.

The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.

I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high.

I didn't get into music to win awards. I love to play and the older I get the more I love it. And I love new things.

I Can't Conceive of Thinking that I'm Too Old to Do What I Love

Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.

I think that people can fall in love with someone who is not of their own generation.

You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.

Susan Marks was in her midseventies, and despite a little stiffness as she stood, she had the look of someone who did an hour of yoga a day to warm up for the second hour of yoga she did each day.

For in truth the years have little effect on our nature and age does not free us of our faults. We lose our hair more quickly than our weaknesses.

Informed of his death, Ritter recalled something Meyers had told him at their first meeting seven years earlier. I am like an old hemlock, he said. My head is still high but the winds of close to a hundred winters have whistled through my branches, and I have been witness to many wondrous and many tragic things. My eyes perceive the present, but my roots are imbedded [sic] deeply in the grandeur of the past.

Youth is a very good thing to possess, no doubt; but it is a tiresome setting for maturity.

Life is a serious problem to a man over thirty. To a man under thirty it is simply a game.

on the one hand she had boundless trust in me, merely because I was thirty years older, a childish trust, and on the other hand no respect at all. I was vexed to find I expected respect.

When I speak of life and love as expanding with age, sex seems the least important thing. At any age we grow by the enlarging of consciousness, by learning a new language, or a new art or craft (gardening?) that implies a new way of looking at the universe. Love is one of the great enlargers of the person because it requires us to take in the stranger and to understand him, and to exercise restraint and tolerance as well as imagination to make the relationship work.

A face without lines that shows no mark of what has been lived through in a long life suggests something unlived, empty, behind

If I survived at all, it would be a triumph. If I swam, it would be a miracle. As I unlocked my door, I thought of my mother putting her age back fifteen years and going into the merchant marines. I had to try. If I ended in defeat, at least I would be trying. Trying to overcome was black people's honorable tradition.

Adults had lost the wisdom from the surface of their faces. I reasoned that I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

I was seventeen, very old, embarrassingly young