Age Quote by Cephalus

“For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are…

— Plato

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition…

— Plato

“He did not want to feel old. He did not want to feel the weight of his age hovering above him, mocking him out…

— William Sarabande

“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

— J.K. Rowling

“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

“And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.”

— William Wordsworth

“Of all men, only those who find time for philosophy are at leisure; only they are truly alive; for it is not only their…

— Seneca

“there is no reason to pity old people. Instead, young people should envy them. It is true that the old have no opportunities, no…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Am struck by paradoxical thought that youth is by no means the happiest time of life, but that most of the rest of life…

— E.M. Delafield

“But, indeed, dull, dreary adversity was now in store for him; and adversity, come it at eighteen or eighty, is the true old age…

— Herman Melville

“I suppose if one lives to be old, one's entire waking life will be spent turning on the spit of recollection over the fires…

— Philip Larkin

“There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which…

— Marcel Proust