Age Quote by Walker Percy

Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into…

— George Santayana

What occurs as you age is an accumulation of information, data, knowledge, and what I'm going to call the matrix of the mind. There's…

— George Carlin

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

— Haruki Murakami

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

That's the worst thing about dementia: it gets you every time. Sufferers look and act the same but beneath the familiar exterior something quite…

— Carol Thatcher

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

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

When you're 89, dementia develops. I mean, I've told a story onstage, and I'm telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the…

— Jerry Lewis

Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind.

— Thomas Bastard

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

— James Russell Lowell

“Middle-aged memory [is] an instrument of torture: you reach for the fruit of memory and it vanishes, to appear when you no longer want…

— Castle Freeman Jr