Quotes About Time

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.

Your inside person doesn't age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you've ever been.

I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

nobody ever intends to be old.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

In a dream you are never eighty.

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

Years do not always make age.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.