Top 37 Old Age And Experience Quotes
#1. Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.
Kenneth Clark
#2. The human birthright includes the possibility of an easy death at extreme old age if we are healthy. Alternatively, we may experience a lot of disease, but with medical intervention probably live almost as long, suffering from suboptimum health all the way through. It's our choice.
Steve Solomon
#3. ... that's what old people are here for, - else their experience is of little use.
Louisa May Alcott
#4. Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.
Mark Twain
#5. What's something every teen should know?
MEANING OF LIFE ENACT,PERSONAL EXPERIENCE TO FACE LIFE EVENTS STORED IN FOR SELF,DO ASSIST OTHERS,RESPECT AND GUARD PARENTS AT OLD AGE AND TAKE THEIR BLESSINGS DAILY FOR FUTURE LIFE GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
Various
#6. Your mind doesn't age much, Lexi. That's why you see all those eighty-year-old women acting silly. In their head, they're still young. Time doesn't change people, experience does. And sickness.
Dannika Dark
#7. We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
#8. How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!
Stanislaw Leszczynski
#9. The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. At the time of our conversations, Chelsea Manning was 22 years of age - my own age when I made the choice to surrender to federal authorities ... I saw someone very familiar that day, and suddenly felt very old.
Adrian Lamo
#11. To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
#12. The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring
that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#13. To have the experience I did as a child, I would have to be a physically different being, one with whom I share nearly nothing. On a cellular level, aside from the neurons of my cerebral cortex and a few other stranglers in my heart and eyes, I am not him.
Thomm Quackenbush
#14. What if experience is disappointment, and a human's old age has no sense, and all what we acquire in our lifetime is a habit for disappointment?
Lara Biyuts
#15. The meaning of pain is different for different people ... It depends on their age, their experience and their knowledge. But the intensity of it is the same, young or old ... and unfortunately it is inevitable ... just like failure, that results in more pain ...
It's a vicious cycle.
Shreyas Tripathy
#16. Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#17. Careful old-timer, your age is showing."
"Hey, I'm only thirty-two. I'm in my prime, woman!"
She harrumphed. "Well, I'm a mere twenty-five and you're way too old for me."
Jay's eyes smoldered as he whispered, "My experience is your gain.
Anne Rainey
#18. Her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#19. Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.
May Sarton
#20. The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
Martin Filler
#22. And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.
Howard Thurman
#23. My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.
Walter Mosley
#24. Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience
Ikechukwu Joseph
#25. Old soul." I laughed. "You're Thirty."
"It's not the years, it's the experience," he paused.
Maria V. Snyder
#26. Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
Roland Barthes
#27. If you don't do anything stupid when you're young, you won't remember something funny when you're old.
Auliq Ice
#28. Induratize (v.) To harden the heart. Among the inevitabilities of old age are that the heart is hardened twice; first figuratively, through experience and loss, and then literally, in the form of atherosclerosis.
Ammon Shea
#29. If this was a flirtation - and it felt like a flirtation - it was like no other flirtation in Katya's experience: with a man old enough to be her grandfather?
Joyce Carol Oates
#30. Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.
Evan Bayh
#31. When you are a child at home alone, you're afraid someone might come; when you are old and at home alone, you're afraid no one will come.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#32. The fact of the matter is that young men lack skill and experience and are very likely to approach a girl as though she were a sack of wheat. It is the old man - suave, debonair, maturely charming - who knows exactly what to do and how to do it, and is therefore better at it.
Isaac Asimov
#33. Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice; reading books in middle age is like looking at the moon in one's courtyard; and reading books in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace.
Lin Yutang
#34. Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
Euripides
#35. We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#36. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.
John Milton
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