Ageing Quotes

“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing; age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”

“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.”

“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”

“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”

“I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.”

“I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.”

“Ageing is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.”

“Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.”

“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?”

“It is not well to make great changes in old age.”

“The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.”

“For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.”

“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.”

Ausonius

“For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”

John Donne

“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”

Coco Chanel

“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable.”

Victor Hugo

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”

Victor Hugo

“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”

Coco Chanel

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

Stanisław Jerzy Lec

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

Mark Twain

“At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves.”

George Orwell

“After a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”