May Sarton Quotes

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

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.

When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.

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.

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

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

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

Old age is life's parody.

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

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

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

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

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

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.

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

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.