Knut Hamsun Quotes

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

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

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.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

Few people know how to be old.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

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

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

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

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

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

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.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

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.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

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

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.

I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.