Old Age Quotes - Page 24

• To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Ignorance, Self, Essence

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Across the Plains”, p.179, BookRix

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• Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Tired, Climbing, Views

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• The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Reading, Age, Novelty

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• A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.

  J. G. Holland

  Christian, Character, Men

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• A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

  Anita Roddick

  Age, Unstoppable, Force

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• I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73 I began to understand the true construction of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes, and insects. At 90 I will enter into the secret of things. At 110, everything - every dot, every dash - will live. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age, I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign myself 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing.'

  Hokusai

  Writing, Animal, Men

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• I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of the merit of art, but a question of spontaneity and sincerity and joy I say. I would like everybody in the world to tell his full life confession and tell it his own way and then we'd have something to read in our old age.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Writing, Joy

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• A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Beautiful, Age

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

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• What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and I have performed over 1000), I have never seen a person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think that anyone has ever died of old age yet. We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of the body.

  Hans Selye

  Health, Thinking, Medicine

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• I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with some regrets and perhaps leave some reputation behind me. What more could I ask? The events in which I am involved will probably save me from the troubles of old age. I shall die in full possession of my faculties, and that is another advantage that I should count among those that I have enjoyed. If I have any distressing thoughts, it is of not having done more for my family; to be unable to give either to them or to you any token of my affection and my gratitude is to be poor indeed.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Life, Gratitude, Regret

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• Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the 'Age War.' The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  War, Age, Battle

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• As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Art, Years

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

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• When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it

  Swami Vivekananda

  Health, Age, Body

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• Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Memories, Book, Simple

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• Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

  George Burns

  Funny, Sports, Humorous

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• Old age is life's parody.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Age, Parody

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

  Rembrandt

  Crush, Creativity, Age

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• I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

  Elton John

  Giving Up, Years, Age

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• It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

  Andre Gide

  Age, Becoming, Virtue

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• Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Sorrow, Age, Ledges

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

  Juvenal

  Girl, Gay, Happy Life

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• One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Death, Two, Age

  Elbert Hubbard, Felix Shay (1912). “The Fra: A Journal of Affirmation”

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• Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

  Euripides

  Wise, Dream, Thinking

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• Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.

  Euripides

  Age, Difficult, Temper

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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• Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Fall, Men, Age

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