To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
Quotations
Age
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
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
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Coningsby"
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
-Oscar Wilde
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
-B. F. Skinner
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
-Jonathan Swift
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
-Norman Wisdom
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
