Aging Quote by Lydia M. Child

“The old grief of the great mystery of human life gradually passes into a quiet, tender joy; in place of the boiling blood of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

— George Herbert

These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and…

— Rupert Brooke

“In the past men were handsome and great (now they are children and dwarfs), but this is merely one of the many facts that…

— Umberto Eco

They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty…

— Louisa May Alcott

“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. The mild serenity of age takes the place…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us.…

— George Eliot

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the…

— Jean Paul

“It is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures, this sombre sameness in middle-aged and elderly people, whose life has resulted in disappointment and discontent,…

— George Eliot

When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And…

— Anonymous

“It is the juices of youth, the joy and gladness carried along through the busy years that make old age tolerable.”

— Orison Swett Marden

“In youth I played and learned...in manhood I worked for family and others...with age I sought understanding and beauty. When death comes, it will…

— Michael Gray Calvert