Quotes About Age

The man with hoary head is not revered as aged by the gods, but only he who has true knowledge; he, though young, is old.

Saps que ets un covard, però la covardia t'és còmoda, i has arribat a l'edat de la comoditat, quan trair és tan fàcil, quan l'egoisme comença a burxar i vols les coses fàcils i busques raons que ho justifiquin. Per qüestions de matís defuges la responsabilitat, la part de responsabilitat que et toca...

Nada es excepcional. En todo lugar han sucedido todas las cosas, aún las más inverosímiles y raras, porque el mundo es muy viejo y hace largo tiempo ya que no inventa, que no renueva su stock de posibilidades.

The old" corresponded to a social class, a bit like "the young" does today.

It is hard for them to condemn the gerontocratic ideal advocated by Cicero and Cato because that denouncement itself, coming from them, could easily pass, in the guise of preserved or rediscovered youth, as a claim to authority, as a coy claim to wisdom, experience, and power, at the very least the power of influence.

Over the course of time, their successive readings will question and enrich it. Thus the work will no longer belong to the author; he will be dispossessed of it. We could even say that the author will no longer belong to himself either—which corresponds to the most modest and ambitious of dreams he is able to formulate and to the wisest and wildest illusion he can maintain: to ignore age and let time run its course. To write is to die a little, but a little less alone.

Perhaps instead it is a matter of an intuition on the poetic order, which establishes unexpected contact between remote elements that do not seem destined to come together. But that poem will never be written or read. I alone will hear it, incapable as I am of even humming it to myself. We are all bearers of such poems, which resist age because they are made only of time.

Thus in the plural use of the word "age" there is an element of optimism, in sharp contrast to its use in the singular, which identifies it with an inevitability, a fate with no future

The ages of life can be evoked independently from the progression that advancing age implies, by means of anticipation, which lays out a future, or memory, which recreates the past, and in any case, by letting the imagination play with time.

the long years with no more shared adventures, in which age makes itself felt more heavily and in which, without the author's romantic ingenuity, forgetfulness might have consumed everything, or nearly so.

to be old is to be alive, and the signs of age are also the signs of life.

retirement is actually considered to be a kind of liberation and rebirth, an opportunity finally to take time to live—to live without counting, to take one's time without further concerns about age.

I age, therefore I live. I have aged, therefore I am.

Time is a freedom, age a constraint. The cat, apparently, does not know this constraint.

The relationship to age is an expression of social inequality.

despite the growing average life span, the age at which one becomes old depends upon one's social origin and type of occupation. The relationship to age is an expression of social inequality.

The great miscalculation of the age is the idea that businesses have to make a choice: to become profitable, or to become platforms for change. This is not the case.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

Given that he would go on to reign for almost forty years, Offa must have been a young man in 757,

In Bede's great work they saw a golden age in which every minster had once been a model Benedictine community,

Æthelwulf was about fifty years old, Judith only twelve

in the autumn of 684, Theodore – now in his early eighties – had been obliged to make his way laboriously northwards

they probably became worse after the death of Theodore, who died in September 690 at the advanced age of eighty-eight.

and he was now almost seventy years old.