Quotes About Transition

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

When does the loneliness of old age begin?

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won't end because we run out of oil.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

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.