Age Quotes

We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.