Age Quote by Saib Tabrizi

Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“it is waking that understands sleep and not sleep that understands waking. There is an ignorance of evil that comes from being young: there…

— C.S. Lewis

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

— Herman Melville

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his…

— Idries Shah

As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of…

— Henry David Thoreau

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

— Walter Lippmann

Sleep is to a man what winding up is to a clock.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

— William James

“...one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night…

— Machado de Assis

“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.…

— Herman Melville