Age Quote by Tom Wolfe

“A prayerless age will have but scant models of divine power. The age may be a better age than the past, but there is…

— E.M. Bounds

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

— May Sarton

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

— Maggie Kuhn

“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

Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum,…

— Tacitus

I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children…

— Daphne du Maurier

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in…

— Elisabeth Elliot

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age…

— John Mortimer

Old age spiritualizes people naturally

— Ram Dass

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was…

— Ronald Blythe

Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near,…

— Euripides