Quotes About Age

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, Lorsque nous étions si jeunes tous deux, Et que nous n'avions au coeur d'autre envie Que d'être bien mis et d'être amoureux! Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, Nous ne comptions pas à deux quarante ans, Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, Tout, même l'hiver, nous était printemps!

He was not tall; he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was but slightly bent, a detail from which we do not pretend to draw any conclusion. Gregory XVI., at the age of eighty, held himself erect and smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop.

These young men were insignificant; everyone has seen such faces; four specimens of the human race taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither wise nor ignorant, neither geniuses nor fools; handsome, with that charming April which is called 20 years.

A child's misery is of concern to a mother, a young man's misery is of concern to a young woman, an old man's misery is of concern to nobody.

The time for it has come, and it would indeed be strange if, in the present age, liberty, like light, should penetrate everywhere, except into that one place where freedom finds its most natural realm - in the world of ideas.

La sofferenza sociale incomincia a qualunque età.

On the face of this aged queen of our cathedrals, by the side of a wrinkle, one always finds a scar. Tempus edax, homo edacior*; which I should be glad to translate thus: time is blind, man is stupid.      *  Time is a devourer; man, more so.

Era un individuo sulla sessantina, con una faccia da uomo d'affari e un'aria da briccone: due cose che spesso vanno insieme.

Sophie was too old for lies and too young for the truth.

Coffee?" Isabelle finger-combed her hair and tied a cotton scarf around her head. "No, merci, it is too precious." The old woman gave her a smile. "No one suspects a woman my age of anything. It makes me good at trading. Here." She offered Isabelle a cracked porcelain mug full of steaming black coffee. Real coffee. Isabelle wrapped her hands around the mug and breathed deeply of the familiar, never-again-to-be-taken-for-granted aroma. Madame

When you get older, you'll understand. There's a certain comfort in the familiar.

Life is short, her dad had said. She knew it was true. Every motherless child knew that. But just now, with her husband's voice droning on and on, she couldn't quite grasp hold of that. Because there was something else, equally true. When you were forty-five years old and missing out, it felt as if life were very long indeed.

y, a pesar de la diferencia de edad entre ellas —que era de al menos diez años, quizá más—, se habían hecho amigas del mismo modo en que se hacen amigas mujeres que llevan vidas paralelas; una amistad sin palabras, pero no por ello menos sincera.

Dad seemed older, his skin more lined and creased. He smiled in that way of his, the way he did everything in life, full tilt, no explanations, no regrets, no safety nets. You knew Tom Walker in a glance, because he let you in. You knew instantly that this was a man

The old are just old.

Poate ca asta e o problema fireasca atunci cand esti cu un tip mai in varsta. El este pregatit de aterizare cand tu abia decolezi.

Voglio dire che l'amore è tutt'intorno a noi», afferma lui. «Ma più diventiamo vecchi, più lo troviamo sconcertante. Più sono le volte in cui siamo rimasti feriti e più ci risulta difficile riconoscerlo, accoglierlo nei nostri cuori e crederci davvero. E se non riusciamo ad accogliere l'amore, non possiamo mai provarlo davvero.»

Her age made her particularly invisible to those who cared most about appearance and power;

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.

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

It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.