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

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths,…

— Juvenal

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

— Arthur Golden

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

“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

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

We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

— James Oppenheim

Hours fly, Flowers die: New days, New ways: Pass by! Love stays.

— Henry Van Dyke

As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in…

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Mo Yan

“Something in one's heart takes fright, not at the thought of growing old, not at feeling one's youth used up in this mineral universe,…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry