Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Quotations
Age
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
To grew old is to pass from passion to compassion
-Albert Camus
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
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
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
