Marcus Aurelius Quotes

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

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

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us.

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.

People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.