Age Quote by James Oppenheim

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

— Jean Paul

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

— Jean Paul

“We age slowly. First our pleasure in life and other people declines, everything gradually becomes so real, we understand the significance of everything, everything…

— Sándor Márai

One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do…

— May Sarton

“Life does not cease when you are old, it only suffers a rich change. You go on loving, only your love, instead of a…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

— Anonymous

The eternal part of us is ageless, relate to that part of yourself, instead of giving the numbers of age , the power to…

— Senoraroy

Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it…

— Andre Maurois

Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was raised sublime...…

— Robert Montgomery

We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment…

— Fidel Castro

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

— Anonymous