Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

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.

I just think age is meaningless. It's a system we've all agreed to that supposedly signals when we should develop, reach our peak and go downhill, as they say. It interferes with our natural growth.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

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

Old age is but a second childhood.

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

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

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.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

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

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

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

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

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

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

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.