Aging Quote by Michael Meade

“The glory of the elderly is their insight to life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Of all men, only those who find time for philosophy are at leisure; only they are truly alive; for it is not only their…

— Seneca

“The very old can tell you about peace. They have fought through the black, sinking, visceral knowledge of death–their own death–that heralds middle age…

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“It means that every man, woman, and child over the age, let us say, of twentyone or thirty, at the very outside, should never…

— J.D. Salinger

“It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Dying can be quite the career move for a young poet.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“Life had engraved such beauty in those lines of age and wisdom ...”

— Rosslyn Elliott

“Surely the lives of the old are briefer than the young.”

— Robert Lowell

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

— Stefan Kanfer

“The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“As every blossom fades and all youth sinks into old age, so every life’s design, each flower of wisdom, attains its prime and cannot…

— Hermann Hesse

“The process which had begun in her - and in he a little earlier only than it must come to all of us -…

— Marcel Proust