Samuel Johnson Quotes About Aging

• At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

  Samuel Johnson

  Birthday, Time, Age

  'A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland' (1775) 'Col'

• There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Errors, Age, Prejudice

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.183

• One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Past, Age

• When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

  Samuel Johnson

  Time, Age, Twenties

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.375

• Condemned to Hope's delusive mine,
  As on we toil from day to day,
  By sudden blasts or slow decline
  Our social comforts drop away.

  Samuel Johnson

  Toil, Comfort, Aging

  'On the Death of Dr Robert Levet' (1783)

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