Quotes about Aging
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man`s gift and that man`s scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things.
Solitude [...] is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Death is nothing. I`m not afraid of nothing. But time passing is something different. I`m terrified of time passing. I tremble at the thought of my little girl growing up. I can`t face my son growing stronger than me and helping me up the stairs. I quake at the prospect of looking at my adult children`s faces with eyesight worse than I have now.
When you get old, peace is about all you want. You folks might not believe that now, but you`ll find out.
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up, and finally you forget to pull it down.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
When you`re a grown-up, you take it for granted that things are going to change no matter how much you try to maintain the status quo [...]. It`s only when you`re a teenager that you talk about change constantly and believe in your heart that it never really happens.