Aging Mind Quotes

Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.

Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go.

Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

When you live in a world of imagination, your imagination doesn't necessarily grow old with you.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn't be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It's a surprise to me that this hasn't happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is not a good thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life; it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.

Even 31 sounds quite old to me, because my brain is probably still in a state of adolescent delinquency.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

To me, you can be young in your mind, in the way you think, but if your body don't come with that, then it's wishful thinking.

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.