Quotes About Age

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

The neurotic who seeks to get rid of the necessities of life wins nothing and lays upon himself the frightful burden of a premature age and death, which must appear especially cruel on account of the total emptiness and meaninglessness of his life.

When an idea is so old and so generally believed, it must be true in some way, by which I mean that it is psychologically true.

The relation of the individual to his fantasy is very largely conditioned by his relation to the unconscious in general, and this in turn is conditioned in particular by the spirit of the age. According to the degree of rationalism that prevails, the individual will be more disposed or less to have dealings with the unconscious and its products.

The first of the Baby Boomers. It's all about them.

The problem with people your age," he said, "is you never understood the difference between thinking and feeling, and to you feeling is more important, which is bullshit.

and I had passed forty the previous year, I could no longer expect to look young.

No pity, I cannot bear that. I have lived far beyond the age of most men. Though it is always better not to see your end walking down the road towards you.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves

the Slow Media Manifesto argues that in an age in which the digital attention economy is shoveling more and more clickbait toward us and fragmenting our focus into emotionally charged shards, the right response is to become more mindful in our media consumption:

So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren scepter in our grasp.

People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.

I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

Time goes faster the older you get. Makes sense, I guess. A day becomes a smaller and smaller fraction of your life.

I am thirty-three—the age of the good sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

While almost everything that surrounds us in life gets old and wears out, stories, like our very souls, don't age.