Blaise Pascal Quotes

Old age is but a second childhood.

Old age is second childhood.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

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

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

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

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

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

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

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

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

Old age is life's parody.

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

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.

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.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

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.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.