Erik Erikson Quotes

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

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

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

Few people know how to be old.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

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

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

Growing old is not growing up.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

I've finally become an old guy.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

I quite like being old.

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