Age Quote by Juvenal

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age…

— Juvenal

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands,…

— Juvenal

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

— Arthur Golden

“Can I, that these flowers’ obsequies attend, Divine how soon or late my life will end? Let others laugh flower-burial to see: Another year…

— Cao Xueqin

You find a flower half-buried in leaves, And in your eye its very fate resides. Loving beauty, you caress the bloom; Soon enough, you'll…

— Hanshan

“My dear Mrs. Ali, I would hardly refer to you as old," he said. "You are in what I would call the very prime…

— Helen Simonson

“The young must not scoff at the old, for flowers don’t bloom forever”

— Mo Yan

“look to the fallen leaves of this season as flowers and remember that we are here on borrowed time, that it is never too…

— Savannah Page

“We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the “fresh life within” that age reveals…

— Joan D. Chittister

Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.

— Pierre de Ronsard

“Be wild enough to ride a new journey, where you walk into the light, the fog clears, And a fresh chapter enters into your…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee