Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Aging

• Nothing is worth more than this day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bad Day, Carpe Diem, Garden

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Maxim 789, 1833.

• All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Spring, Tree

• We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Age, Faults

• The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Wish, Age

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Carl Friedrich Zelter (1892). “Goethe's Letters to Zelter: With Extracts from Those of Zelter to Goethe”

• Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Long, Age

• It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Age, Faults

• Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Time, Children

• The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Aging, Ordeals, Grows

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