Quotes About Time

Why is youth so short and age so long?

That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn.

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

I think it's always important to reflect anyway, no matter what age you're approaching or what milestone is in front of you. Reflection should be almost a daily thing if possible.

A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

In all dying our ages are the same.

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

I want to age nicely. Rather than being afraid of aging, I want to take each year coolly and age gracefully.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Almost any age is better than twenty-two.

It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.

Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.

The loss of friends is a tax on age!

When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.

Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.

A rock star does not age!

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

Age is just a number baby, what are you now? 40?

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

114 isn't as old as it used to be they say its the new 104.

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?