Age Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

“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

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

When you get old, your physical strength, your hopes, your dreams, your ideals, your convictions, all meaning, or then again, the people you love:…

— Anonymous

Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they held, and…

— Al-Ghazali

“Even when you don't see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye”

— Benny Bellamacina

The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

— Cesare Pavese

“Near the end of our lives, many of us struggle to move beyond the death of our dreams, beyond how we have been wounded…

— Ronald Rolheiser

“On differing perspectives: "At birth, we're yanked from a warm, safe place and thrust into a world we have no way of comprehending. Childhood…

— Rick Reynolds

it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things...

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They…

— Martha Beck

There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.

— Red Skelton