Age Quote by William Gibson

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

— Philip Roth

Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.

— Dalai Lama

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.

— Marilyn Ferguson

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older…

— Gus Van Sant

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

— Anonymous

Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves…

— Henry Miller

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

— Marilyn Ferguson

As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.

— Kevin Nealon

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

— George Santayana

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

— Charles Dudley Warner