Quotes About Perspective

Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old 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.

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

Young. Old. Just Words.

If youth only knew, if age only could.

This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

The best age is the age you are.

The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.