Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Old Age

• The years teach much which the days never know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

• The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean Girls, Women, Age

• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

  "The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

• All diseases run into one, old age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Funny Relationship, Hair

  Journals

• Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Comfort, Relief

  Journal, 1864, in Linda Allardt et al. (eds.) 'The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson' vol. 15, 1860-6 (1982) p. 428

• Nature abhors the old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Old Age, Growing Old

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.159, Penguin

• Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Fit, Surroundings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.161, Harvard University Press

• The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essence, Age, Intellect

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.160, Harvard University Press

• In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Serenity, Age, Behavior

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.292

• I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Men, Love Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.63, Harvard University Press

• But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.74, Penguin

• Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Wrinkles, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.306, Courier Corporation

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