Ivan Turgenev Quotes

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The older I get, the more I become an apple pie, sparkling cider kind of guy.

I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.

In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.

The older I get, the more I desire simplicity.

The older you get the simpler you want to make it.

The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

When I was young I thought: when I am 60 my necessities will be very different. As I get near that age, I realise they are similar to what they were when I was 25.

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

Don't be too eager to grow up. It ain't as much fun as it looks

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

I'm not getting old I'm evolving.

I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.

I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar".

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.