Quotes About Time

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Everyday took an age to go by, which was odd, because days plural went past like a stampede.

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

At my age, I'm envious of a stiff wind.

I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair. Time, doing this to me, may alter too. My sorrow, into something I can bear.

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it to some particular studies.

For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.

When the age is in, the wit is out.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.