Henry David Thoreau Quotes

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Old age spiritualizes people naturally

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

Old age is second childhood.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

Old age makes caricatures of us all.

You have to embrace getting older.

What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.