Quotes About Age

As much as Gabri liked to refer to the elderly poet as the Labrador on the leg of life, she was indeed trained.

Softly comes Old Age, the thief, Steals the rapture, leaves the throes.

All thoughts that mould the age begin Deep down within the primitive soul.

shutters as old as Herman Melville.

Anne.... was so pale and tragic at breakfast next morning that Marilla was alarmed and insisted on making her a cup of scorching ginger tea. Anne sipped it patiently, although she could not imagine what good ginger tea would do. Had it been some magic brew, potent to confer age and experience, Anne would have swallowed a quart of it without flinching.

the present age... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence... truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is, in fact, held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be seen as the highest degree of sacredness.

You will not find a treatise that is too learned for me; without laying claim to any genuine learning, I yet accustomed myself from childhood onwards to grasp the spirit of the best and wisest in every age. Shame on the artist who does not consider it his duty to achieve at least so much.

We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables where the diners are young and hip. The older couples, the ones sporting wedding bands that wink with their silverware, eat without the pepper of conversation. Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

H]is skin was the color of age and his features the shape of a saint's.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

The older friendships get, the newer they become.

It's more dangerous to make friends when you're old than when you're young.

It was Celeste, his mom. Only now she was younger than he was.

Duties had kept him in London. A place he increasingly detested. A mood that may have come with age, for he had loved the city when he was young, in those last golden days of Victoria's reign. The world had seemed so sure.

Time and age have brought not wisdom, as they are supposed to do, but confusion, and a broadening incomprehension, each year laying down another ring of nesience.

We do not grow up; all we do is grow dull.

I shall be seventy-two this year. Impossible to believe. Inside, an eternal twenty-two. I suppose that is how it is for everybody old.

Auden wrote somewhere that no matter what the age of the company, he was always convinced he was the youngest in the room; me, too.

All the same, they [young, twenty-somethings] can't help feeling that the aged and even the infirm have somehow elected that condition ... or have as it were been assigned those roles ... so that they ... can play their youthful-energetic, all but immutable selves.

Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.

Do you think . . . ? 'I do sometimes, my boy,'admitted the old man. 'When I can't avoid it.

They sat there in ascending order of age and stupidity.

The suggestion, however, regarding my age – that I am perhaps not quite fifty years old – would flatter me immensely. For it is many years now since I have been able to say in all honesty that I have only seen half a century. This is simply the age, or at least the visual representation of an age, at which I have been stuck for a large proportion of my 256 years of life. I am an old man.

I'm 25 admitted the ghost. But I feel much older How old do you feel? Ancient, sometimes. Like, 30