Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I'm looking forward to becoming older and quieter.

You're aging when your actions creak louder than your words.

Old age spiritualizes people naturally

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

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.

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

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.

I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.

I've always looked old for my age.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

I've never been scared of aging.

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

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

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

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

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!

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

I am what I am - which is I have aged.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.