Aging Quote by Jacques Yves Cousteau

An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.

— Robert Bly

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser'…

— Jenna Morasca

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

— Henry Adams

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

— Margaret Mead

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not…

— Alice Walker

Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.

— Louis Cozolino

Like children, the elders are a burden. But unlike children, they offer no hope or promise. They are a weight and an encumbrance and…

— Kent Nerburn

Old is just youth with the benefit of experience.

— Anonymous

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical…

— Colleen McCullough

As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not…

— Alexander Lowen

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology...

— Susan Sontag

the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense…

— Maggie Scarf