Quotes About Perception

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

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

Age will bring all things, and everyone knows, Madame, that twenty is no age to be a prude.

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

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

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

When the age is in, the wit is out.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age; one is lost in them the other hidden.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD...I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.

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