Pearl S. Buck Quotes

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

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

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

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.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Anyone of my age knows that days pass at a far greater speed than when they were young.

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.

People always talk about how time flies; it's become sort of a colloquialism now. You don't really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s - and I'm sure time will move even faster as I get older.

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

I've never been scared of aging.

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

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

People are always spewing this horseshit about how age doesn't matter. Well, it does matter! I'm thirty-five, and I'm happy to be thirty-five. I can't pretend I'm still a snot-nosed 21-year-old.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.