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71. “You see a woman, you think that one day she’ll be old, only you don’t see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
Shared Adventure, Temporal Love, Life’s Passage, Aging, Growth, Romance
78. “To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.” Robert Louis Stevenson Wisdom Beginning, Youth Experiment, Self Ignorance, Aging, Wisdom, Youth
85. “The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself not with the body, which is falling away, but with the consciousness of which it is a vehicle. This is something I learned from myths.” Joseph Campbell Middle Life, Body Decline, Consciousness Shift, Aging, Wisdom, Growth
89. “The elderly man, flushed with pleasure, was recounting in voluble fashion his experiences and impressions. His wife joined in periodically, with meticulous corrections involving completely unimportant points; these being given and taken in the best of humor.” Isaac Asimov Aging, Relationships, Wisdom, Humor, Communication, Memory
Aging Quotes by Famous Authors
71. “You see a woman, you think that one day she’ll be old, only you don’t see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure.”
Jean-Paul Sartre Shared Adventure, Temporal Love, Life’s Passage, Aging, Growth, Romance
78. “To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.”
Robert Louis Stevenson Wisdom Beginning, Youth Experiment, Self Ignorance, Aging, Wisdom, Youth
85. “The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself not with the body, which is falling away, but with the consciousness of which it is a vehicle. This is something I learned from myths.”
Joseph Campbell Middle Life, Body Decline, Consciousness Shift, Aging, Wisdom, Growth
89. “The elderly man, flushed with pleasure, was recounting in voluble fashion his experiences and impressions. His wife joined in periodically, with meticulous corrections involving completely unimportant points; these being given and taken in the best of humor.”
Isaac Asimov Aging, Relationships, Wisdom, Humor, Communication, Memory
