Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Young. Old. Just Words.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

The years that pass eat up your margin for error until there is no margin left. The mistakes you make are no longer flaws of inexperience, they are flaws of character. To be young is to be constantly on the precipice of perfection—just a little further and you’ll get there—but you never get there, and suddenly you’re old, and find yourself in a permanent state of imperfection, which you must reckon with.

The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.

Of course, anybody's who's 26 years old will probably say, "Of course the old guy would say that." But wait until you're 45 or 46 years old. See how you feel about it then.

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

for whenever men are right they are not young

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience...when I was young I wasn't scared about anything

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

About loving, I have little to learn from the young.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

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