George Santayana Quotes

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

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

In a dream you are never eighty.

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

Youth has no age.

Youth is not a period of time. It is a state of mind, a result of the will, a quality of the imagination, a victory of courage over timidity, and the taste of adventure over the love of comfort. A man doesn't grow old because he's lived a certain number of years, he grows old because he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skins, but deserting his ideals wrinkles his soul. Preoccupation, fears, doubts, and despair are dust before death. You will remain young as long as you are open to what is beautiful, good, great and receptive to the messages of other men and women and nature and of God. If one day you should become bitter, pessimistic, and gnawed by despair, may God have mercy on your old man's soul.

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?

If you love the things you do, you don’t age, you always remain young. Age is for the calendar.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

All would live long, but none would be old.

Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

The most intriguing thing about the present moment is that it never grows old.

White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

May you stay Forever Young

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.

There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.

Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.

Old men ought to be explorers.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.