Carl Jung Quotes

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

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.

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

If you try to stay young forever, you don't really live.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

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

The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over, and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

I'm trying to grow old gracefully. I've got to at least grow old.

Even if your parents don't have Alzheimer's or aren't in a wheelchair, your parents get old - if you're lucky to have parents who live for a long time. It's a challenge, and it's difficult and lovely and touching and awful and ghastly and real.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.