Quotes About Time

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside.

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.

The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.

When I was about 25, I went to a hand reader, this Indian guy in a funky neighborhood. He said: The height of your success won't happen until you're in your late 40s.

Most people die at age 25 and are buried at age 65.

I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

Young. Old. Just Words.

If youth only knew, if age only could.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.