Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Quotations
Age
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
Who shall be so bold as not to accept for absolute the limitation of his years, his experience and his age? Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
-Michel De Montaigne
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
An old man is twice a child.
-William Shakespeare
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
-Plato
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
t is one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem.
-Lord Byron
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Mark Twain
