Quotes About Age

If you would estimate the extent of a woman's pride in youth, see how much remains even after she has passed the age of pleasing.

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.

You feel you're learning everything about love as you watch him, from the other side. He imagines you leaving your cozy London world for a man in his thirties who has no real job, who still travels on buses, who's never found a firm footing with his life. The poet, the dreamer, and you would have fallen for it once. But you're too old, now. You just want to fuck.

Today I am 65 years old. I still look good. I appreciate and enjoy my age. A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it. You still bring to bear all your prior experience, but you are riding on another level. It's completely liberating.

What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

He was already beginning, as always happens at a respectable age, to take a firm stand for Raphael and the old masters––not because he was fully convinced of their lofty merit, but so as to shove them in the faces of young artists.

In the old man's face there was nothing very special - save that the chin was so greatly projected that whenever he spoke he was forced to wipe it with a handkerchief to avoid dribbling.

You see, wisdom does not come with grey hairs.

I'm only forty-two—the age at which service just seriously begins.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

But Doug had the same clichéd overreaction to wealth that defined most bearded men his age.

Could I be having a midlife crisis? Ahead of schedule. God, I'd just turned thirty-four. How batty would I be by fourty?

When a body's this old, she can claim to be as wise as she wants.

Living in the second half of the twentieth century, I realized, confers no automatic protection against unwise or even dangerous drugs and methods. Each age has had to undergo its own special nostrums. (Chapter 1)

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

We are a Faustian age determined to meet the Lord or the Devil before we are done, and the ineluctable ore of the authentic is our only key to the lock.

But you know, there's one simple thing I see absolutely clearly, now that I am so very old. I looked at her. The Albert Einstein hairstyle, and the bright black eyes and the sharp nose. That pallor on her face. She put her small hand on mine. The world is wonderful , she said. All its little things. It is wonderful .

Gerçekte, büyük bir ya? fark?m?z yok; ben de okuyup yazm?? bir ki?i say?l?r?m. Ne var ki, insanlar aras?ndaki fark, böyle basit ölçülerle de?erlendirilemez. Bunu biliyorum.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

We should be foolish indeed if we valued their achievement simply on the score of age. Yet we allow our historical sympathy to override our aesthetic discrimination.

It has been said that man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.