Carl Jung Quotes

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.

We kind of deny the stages of life.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

Everybody has a purpose in this world.

This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me.

By living so long, the supercentenarian earns the prefixal 'super' and becomes a person suddenly freighted with power and meaning. He's Gandalf, Yoda, the Ancient Mariner, perhaps with some otherworldly insight. He's lived so long that, in fact, he's living the afterlife to his own initial life.