To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Quotations
Age
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
One aged man – one man – cannot fill a house.
-Robert Frost
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
-Mark Twain
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
