Simone de Beauvoir Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Birthday, Time, Children

  "'Une femme rompue' ('A Woman Destroyed')". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1967.

• Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Anxiety, Age, Care

  "The Coming of Age". Book by Simone de Beauvoir. Conclusion, p. 543, 1970.

• One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Motivational, Strong Women, Philosophy

  The Second Sex vol. 2, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949) (translation by H. M. Parshley)

• Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Time, Age, Aging

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

• There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Giving, Age, Goes On

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

• Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Civilization, Silence, Age

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

• Old age is life's parody.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Age, Parody, Old Age

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

• It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Death, Time, Destiny

  Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

• Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Fall, Men, Age

• It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Lying, Men

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

• Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Eye, Mirrors, Age

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of circumstance”

• Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Memories, Sadness, Age

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of Circumstance: Hard times”

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