Aging Quote by Geoff Dyer

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

— Paul Auster

“All things, my son, transmute into old age, life diminishes, everything declines, the proliferation of kinds is a mere illusion, and no one knows…

— W.G. Sebald

“In childhood, you long to grow up fast because older people are more powerful, young men more powerful. A child just longs to grow…

— Osho

“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their…

— Anonymous

“Perhaps, when you leave your childhood behind too early and jump into adulthood, certain parts of you never fully grow up. They just become…

— Angela Hoke

“Adults like to say that childhood passes quickly, that it's over in the blink of an eye. I can't agree. When you become an…

— Sergey Grechishkin

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

— Leon Trotsky

“One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face.”

— Mercedes Lackey

“However old we become, there will always remain some things young within ourselves!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

— Oscar Wilde

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

— Joseph Campbell

“People like you and me never grow old. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were…

— Albert Einstein