Bernard Berenson Quotes

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

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 was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!

I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.

I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think you can be delirious in your youth, but as you get older, things happen.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

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

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room.

I find I'm an old soul.

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

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

I am an aging Girl Scout.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

I believe in aging gracefully.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.