Emily Dickinson Quotes

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

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

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Getting older is hard.

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.

Few people know how to be old.

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

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.

I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

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.

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