George Santayana Quotes About Old Age

Quotes about: Old Age

• The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

  George Santayana

  Birthday, Passion, Pride

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.22, Рипол Классик

• Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

  George Santayana

  Adventure, Age, Spirit

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

• Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

  George Santayana

  Inspiration, Age, Youth

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

• Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

  George Santayana

  Writing, Adventure, Young Friends

• Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Self, Bird

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

• Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

  George Santayana

  Blessed, Animal, Peaceful

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

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