Age Quote by William James

“Then the earth grew old, its landscapes mellowing and showing signs of age, its ways becoming whimsical and strange in the manner of a…

— Michael Moorcock

Then, casting a glance on the handsome young man, who was scarcely twenty-five years of age, and whom he was leaving in his gore,…

— Anonymous

The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and…

— Lydia M. Child

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“the old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the surprise which a man can still feel after a…

— Victor Hugo

“To what nadir of paltriness , pettiness, and squalor a man can sink! How could he change so! But is this really true to…

— Nikolai Gogol

“We age slowly. First our pleasure in life and other people declines, everything gradually becomes so real, we understand the significance of everything, everything…

— Sándor Márai

“What was he doing during the trip? What was he thinking about? As he had during the morning, he watched the trees go by,…

— Victor Hugo

The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at…

— Siri Hustvedt

“This son of his old age was yet more dear— Less from instinctive tenderness, the same Fond spirit that blindly works in the blood…

— William Wordsworth

“Sometimes without conscious realization, our thoughts, our faith, out interests are entered into the past. We talk about other times, other places, other persons,…

— James McBride

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero