Old Age Quotes - Page 14

• Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Teaching, Character

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)”, p.98, Kshetra Books

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• Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

  Roland Barthes

  Vision, Age, Today

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• The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

  Paolo Sorrentino

  Thinking, Age, Old You

  "Director's Cut: Paolo Sorrentino ('The Great Beauty')". Interview with David Ehrlich, www.mtv.com. November 14, 2013.

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• The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

  Tony Benn

  People, Appreciate, Age

  "Tony Benn: I'm not frightened by death - my wife taught me it's an adventure" by Alison Phillips, www.mirror.co.uk. August 3, 2013.

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• In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Government, Europe, Democracy

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• The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Age, Max

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.43, Wordsworth Editions

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• I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.

  Woody Allen

  Age, Frightened, Terrible

  "Woody Allen gives you two for one in Melinda and Melinda". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 17, 2005.

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• Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.

  Eric Hoffer

  Drama, Artist, Destiny

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• Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brains cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Loneliness, Optimism, Healthy

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• We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a family to stand up to it; all the more obligation on those of us who have nothing left to lose. At any age it is better to be a dead lion than a living dog - though better still, of course, to be a living and victorious lion - but it is easier to run the risk of being killed (or fired) in action if before long you are going to be dead anyway. This freedom seems to me the chief consolation of old age.

  Elmer Davis

  Running, Dog, Men

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• Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they feel. Most would rather succumb to a barrage of bullets from a roomful of sworn enemies than to the debilitation of old age, dying the death of the feeble. A gangster becomes as addicted to the thrill of the battle and the potential to die in the midst of it as he does to he more attractive lures in his path. In his world, the potential for death exists every day. The better gangsters don't shy away from such a dreaded possibility but rather find comfort in its proximity.

  Lorenzo Carcaterra

  Enemy, Dying, Age

  Lorenzo Carcaterra (2002). “Gangster”, p.93, Ballantine Books

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• After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

  Alain de Botton

  Men, Age, Strive

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• Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

  Billy Graham

  Years, Challenges, Age

  Billy Graham (2013). “Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Age, World

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• Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Elderly, Years

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• One spares old people just as one spares children.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, People, Age

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• What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Age, Desire, Youth

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• To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Age, Youth, Fortune

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• What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Ignorance, Passion

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or sickness (from which none are exempt,) overtakes you, or for the distressed of your race, what a heaven of happiness you would have created on earth: ye would now be an ornament to your sex, and ages to come would call you blessed. But it is in vain to try - a priest-ridden female is lost to reason. Why? because she has surrendered her reason to the ... missionaries ... the orthodox; they are the grand deceivers.

  Anne Royall

  Sex, Blessed, Race

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• One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Age, Needs

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• Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Elderly, Wish

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• It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fashion, Thinking, Elderly

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• I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Self, Age, Lifetime

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• Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Long, Age, Desire

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