Ageing Quotes

Your age is measured by your dreams not by the years.

In the seven years or so that had passed since I had last seen him, Sir Magnus Donners had grown not...

One’s capacity for hearing about ghastly doings lessens with age.

In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt t...

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most u...

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age ...

...real age, as I came to see from the genuine pieces that passed through my hands, was variable, cr...

Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chose...

To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they g...

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the pa...

They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or ...

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it ta...

In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.

New landscapes, new customs. The accumulation of memories. A long life is not a question of years. A...

It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by sing...

There is one thing I can say for certain: the older a person gets, the lonelier he becomes. It's tru...

When did my youth slip away from me? I suddenly thought. It was over, wasn't it? Seemed just like ye...

Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the tru...

Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you’re getting old.

Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven? I mean, if it's Heaven, you should be at...

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your exc...

... forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on.

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions ...

I wonderif I should let my hair go greyso my advice will be better.

Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall i...

Men always praise antiquity and fault the present, although not always reasonably, and they are part...

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be ...

Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying t...

What do they think has happened, the old fools,To make them like this? Do they somehow supposeIt's m...

True, he had chosen to live alone, but not unbearably alone. The worst of being unbearably alone was...

Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fig...

We may say that all ages are dangerous to all people, in this dangerous life we live. But the thirti...

And I seemed to see myself ageing as swiftly as a day-fly. But the idea of ageing was not exactly th...

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is...

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wis...

Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities...

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

I know I do everything. I've been doing everything for an awfully long time, and I've seen and lived...

Ageing is not easy, Sennhora Castro. It's a terrible, incurable pathology. And great love is another...