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Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.
Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.
The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.
You can't get old without living.
Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight
People age even when you're not looking.
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
There is no old age of the soul.
The minute you're born, you're getting older.
Not aging is not the same as living
Time is constant and age is just a number,
Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.
When the prevailing fantasy is that we can be ageless, the geriatrician's uncomfortable demand is that we accept we are not.
Every moment age is creeping up stealthily,
but life, life is melting down
like a candle that is flickering around.
Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. And to alter now, cleanly and sanely, I want to shuffle off this loose living randomness: people; reviews; fame; all the glittering scales; and be withdrawn, and concentrated.
The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.
Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
I like to consider myself young at heart and ageless.
Every person on the planet-including Grace, Lorraine, Victor and Sarah- will instantly stop aging. And one person with start.
There was no sign in the face of any intermediate stages in the aging process, no hint of the man of thirty or forty or fifty who had been left behind. Only adolescence and the age of sixty were represented. It was as though a seventeen-year-old had been withered and bleached by a blast of heat.
Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.
The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.
In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Age is just a number, the sum of which took me years to add up.
The strange things about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone.
In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.
The young don't know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.
There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.
When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
I don't ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don't have the power, alas.
Only youth has a taste of immortality.
Old is man when he is born and young, young ever after.
To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
Old age is the new childhood.
I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or you are not.
Age is not the flight of years; it is the dawn of wisdom in the mind of man.
No one who is young is ever going to be old.
Youth is given up to illusions.
One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.
The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.
Youth comes but once in a lifetime
You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'
The mechanistic age impended over an horizon not hostile, but silently indifferent.
The good thing about being old is not being young.
Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.
Wherever there is power there is age.
Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.
The glory of age is a gorgeous soul.
One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look back, "I'm old," after 40 or 60 years, I can't believe I'm as old as I am.
I am old now. So old. My sight fades, my muscles are weak, my piss dribbles, my bones ache, and I sit in the sun and fall asleep to wake tired.
When you've set goals and dreams, you don't feel old.
I don't feel old or young, I just am
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom ... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.
You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.
When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.
Sometimes life makes you older than your age.
Few know how to be old.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Age has a way of sobering us. Our experiences, our disappointments, and our failures have a way of shrinking our expectations. Sometimes they wound us in a way that steals our faith and bankrupts our dreams.
Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present.
The feeling of uselessness is no respecter of age and never asks permission, but instead corrodes people's souls, repeating over and over: 'No one is interested in you, you're nothing, the world doesn't need your presence.
Youth is when you think you'll live forever. Old age is when you wonder how you've lived so long.
One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old
You discover you are old when your regrets replace your dreams.
Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
Age, thou hast lost thy labor.
Professionally, I have no age.
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it's the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It's the body that is changing around that ageless center.
One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.
Reckless youth makes rueful age.
Ageing is a privilege not a predicament
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.
Age can't dull the beauty of life that reflects and radiates from within.
Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.
Old age is but a second childhood.
Getting older is inevitable--being old is a choice.
Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
Age is just reality we create for ourselves.
My age fallen away like white swaddling
Floats in the middle distance, becomes
An inhabited cloud.
Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.
Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young, erode. We end up belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself. [p. 66]
Age- the price we all must pay.
The stretch of years leaves none unmarked: the blissful sense of youthful invincibility peels away and responsibility brings its weight to bear.
Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.