Age Quotes

Look, moonI turned silver for you.

Awakened at midnightby the sound of the water jarcracking from the ice

Being happy is a requisite for longevity.

CANDLE WISDOM If you knewwhat you will knowwhen your candlehas burnt low, it would greatlyease your plightwhile your candlestill burns bright.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth...

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.

All things old become new again. In my youth the athletes had crew cuts and the hippies had long hair. Now the athletes have long hair and the hippies are bald.

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

...one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth.

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man’s disease people have no business getting when they’re young.

We’d like to think that our youth was madder, brighter, happier than it was. It comforts us as we grow older, to believe that once upon a time we danced at dawn in a fountain.

I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.

[T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beautiful perfection, that life and wisdom do presently and most mercifully dull.

we’re too old to be young.

-I was young! I made a mistake, okay! Haven’t you ever made a mistake?-I’m old! Of course I’ve made mistakes, you stupid little shit!

Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?

I do not dye my hair blackso as to be young again and sin againbut because people dye their clothes black in mourning, so I have dyed my hair black, mourning for my old age.

The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.

Young men think old men fools, old men know young men to be so.

Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, but the gold is thinning and the laurel has withered. Face it – pitiful monster.

Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.

Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood.

When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.

I'm thirty-four.""You don't look thirty-four.""That's because I'm not married." Mae's smile felt as if it were set in concrete. "Marriage tends to age a woman.

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.

That's what is was to be young — to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

So now we are young still but a better sort of young.

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going.

Mobile is the digital gateway for the real world.

Embrace the beauty of existence.

I felt like I wasn’t living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn’t be if I’d been born in 1929.

Death is just another path to take, as real as morning.

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.

Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?

Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.

He’s so powerful. Who knows maybe he’s advanced past eating

My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.

If the future of the free world depends on me, please accept my apology in advance

It scored a direct hit on my eardrum and rattled around in side my head

I turn and run, watching my feet trample a massacre of weeds. I mourn them. The only thing that grows is dandelions in the cracks of the sidewalk and we always end up killing them.

But it wasn't anyone! ... What could I say I was a freak - an Empty.

Belonging to a place isn't nearly as necessary as belonging to people you love and who love you and need you.

She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.)

Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)

Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know!’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.

Old age is the new childhood.

Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.

...ya can't get to Nevada on five bucks and a bad heart...