Quotes About Reflection

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of people on the threshold of my solitude.

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

In our daily lives problems are bound to arise. The biggest problems in our lives are the ones that we inevitably have to face, like old age, illness, and death. Trying to avoid our problems or simply not thinking about them may provide temporary rel.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

If youth knew; if age could.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Age appears to be best in four things, - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least, get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Age considers; youth ventures.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.