Age Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give…

— Maurice Chevalier

I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the…

— Alix Kates Shulman

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

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become,…

— Ingmar Bergman

Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

— Dodie Smith

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.

— Plato

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical…

— Colleen McCullough

“As I got older, I thought about aging more, as we all do. I came to think of old age as a fallibility akin…

— Lai Wen

“My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and…

— James Lee Burke

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master,…

— Plato

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

— Diane de Poitiers

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and…

— Billy Graham