Denis Diderot 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.

Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.

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

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.

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.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.”

I remember, being young is a scary, wonderful feeling.

Anytime you have an injury, you're going to be iffy about stuff.

As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

Old age is but a second childhood.

It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

If you need to know in advance that everything will 'work out' before you jump in, you'll never jump into anything.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

...an old man is twice a child.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.