AGE QUOTES III
quotations about age
Age does announce itself in interesting ways. Much has been written about nose hair and ear hair and diminishing hairlines and I suppose that's all fair and true. But far more importantly, and with far graver implications, I simply cannot drink any more. In the old days at a party I might manage a bottle of wine by myself and carry on as though nothing had happened, but these days such an endeavour would be truly cavalier. Hell is the bloating and the headache; the day-long regret; the bitter self-recrimination; the terrible when-will-you-ever-grow-up self-loathing. It's just not worth it. I've also taken to that older person's trick of wondering what the hell is up with the youngsters. To be serious for a moment: what the actual hell is up with the youngsters? Why are they such entitled little s***s?
ALEXANDER PARKER
"VRROOM WITH A VIEW: Age makes one appreciate the finer things in life", Business Day, March 8, 2016
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Faust
Age is not the enemy. Neither is the passage of time. It is the collateral damage ... that creates a problem for us.
JOHN KOESSLER
The Radical Pursuit of Rest: Escaping the Productivity Trap
What we think of as old has changed over time, and it will need to continue changing in the future as people live longer, healthier lives.
YAGANA SHAH
"60, Not 50, Is The New Middle Age, Study Says", Huffington Post, April 16, 2015
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.
SOPHIA LOREN
attributed, Chicken Soup for the Soul
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it!
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
Ponkapog Papers
Age is an "umbrella" variable under which various changes in people's lives are subsumed.
P. MATTHIJS BAL
"A lifespan perspective on psychological contracts and their relations with organizational commitment", Age in the Workplace: Challenges and Opportunities
Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
letter to Arthur Hugh Clough, Feb. 12, 1853
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
GEORGE SAND
attributed, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old
If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old.
BAI JUYI
"At the End of Spring"
Age is just one of the markers we use to discriminate.
RICHARD L. SPROTT
"Reality Check", Aging, Biotechnology, and the Future
You know, at the time -- you think 30, you think you're old. We thought we were old at 30. And then you look back, and of course that's funny.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, Backstreets, December 10, 2015
Old age is frequently resisted and rejected, especially in North American culture: age is something that is fought intensely, and weapons of questionable effectiveness are eagerly supplied by the beauty and biomedical industries. In some cultures, however, a ripe old age is bestowed with certain benefits, such as elder status and an inherent association with wisdom that demands respect. Thus, to some extent, age and its interpretation are mental and cultural concepts.
KAREL SCHRIJVER & IRIS SCHRIJVER
Living with the Stars: How the Human Body is Connected to the Life Cycles of the Earth, the Planets, and the Stars
Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.
THEOCRITUS
"The Love of Thyonichus"