Age Quote by William Hazlitt

As we age, the bright light of youth either burns out or burns stronger - it's our choice.

— John Avery

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

We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

— James Oppenheim

As you age, feelings do diminish.

— Bette Midler

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.

— Thomas Jefferson

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

— Euripides

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

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

— Cesare Pavese

Old age is not total misery, experience helps.

— Euripides

When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those…

— Victor Hugo

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

— Sue Grafton

It will not hurt me when I am old, A running tide where moonlight burned Will not sting me like silver snakes;The years will…

— Sara Teasdale