Quotes About Age

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

I'm 60 years of age. That's 16 Celsius.

Some people reach the age of sixty before others.

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

Yes, you're very very old But try to think of it as not being cursed After all, in a hostage situation You'd be released first!

I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.