Quotes About Reflection

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.

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

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

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

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

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.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

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.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Age is a bad traveling companion.

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.