Simone de Beauvoir Quotes About Aging

Quotes about: Aging

• The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Strange, Aging, Ends

• 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”

• When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Hair, Two

• 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 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”

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