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Aging Quotes

"The wise man does not grow old, but ripens"
Victor Hugo
"A man who died at thirty-five will appear to distant generations as a young man, almost a boy, while his contemporaries who reached a ripe old age will always seem to me to have been born old."
Walter Benjamin
"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm"
Henry David Thoreau
"I'm really too young to be feeling this old "
Drake
"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age"
George Sand
"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."
William Shakespeare
"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late"
Benjamin Franklin
"It is a curious thing that at my age one begins to dread the dropping of acquaintances. Like a tree, which it is said must be spared any more cutting at its roots, one feels that one cannot bear to lose any more of one's friends."
Agatha Christie
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older to protest against change particularly change for the better"
John Steinbeck
"The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs"
Hunter S. Thompson
"Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up."
Philip Roth
"I want to change and grow more radical with age."
Russell Brand
"Many people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five"
Benjamin Franklin
"Time, time, time, there's always time, right? Wrong. Blink and you are 95."
Sylvester Stallone
"I feel like someone completely different than the person I was in my 20s, and I love that"
Shakira
"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Being seventy is not a sin"
Golda Meir
"The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me"
Plato
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