Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

He who has lived a day has lived an age.

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Life itself is a quotation.

If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

Our time on Earth is so random.

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

Time is long but life is short.

Aging is a synonym for living.

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