Age Quote by Anonymous

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what…

— Rowan Williams

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

— Rowan Williams

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older…

— Isabel Allende

I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I'll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing…

— Martha Nussbaum

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they…

— Jessamyn West

When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be…

— Rudolf Bahro

People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel…

— Paul Tournier

I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the…

— Alix Kates Shulman

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

— Kenny Rogers

“My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and…

— James Lee Burke

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

— Samuel Johnson

“When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!”

— Stephen Richards