Quotes About Aging Wisdom

#1. it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing, said the Butterfly.

Sabrina Newby

#3. I've never
stopped wanting to cross
the equator, or touch an elk's
horns, or sing Tosca or screw
James Dean in a field of wheat.
To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong:
I'll never be through with my life.

Rita Dove

#4. The four signs of aging "Courage, Strength, Wisdom & I don't remember...

Anne Reese

#5. The days before, even the score of what you are filled in with today. What colour are you, the tangled hues of years gone by that affected you?

Juliet Castle

#6. -I was young! I made a mistake, okay! Haven't you ever made a mistake?
-I'm old! Of course I've made mistakes, you stupid little shit!

Drea Damara

#7. In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying.

Edgar H Schein

#8. Graceful aging starts by leveling the playing field between emotional landmines and physical grievances.

Auliq Ice

#9. It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love, or was I just desperate?

Nora Ephron

#10. I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

Eve Ensler

#11. I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.

Brian Rathbone

#13. I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be.

Justin Smith

#14. We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#15. Wisdom comes with winters

Oscar Wilde

#16. Never had anyone said, Listen. Life is short. Pretend your body is still in its twenties. Jump for the brass ring. Swing for those bleachers. Dive into the deep end of the pool. Act like a fool if you must, but at least *live*.

Cathie Pelletier

#17. I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

Kathy Mattea

#18. As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.

Mason Cooley

#19. Beirut is the Elizabeth Taylor of cities: insane, beautiful, falling apart, aging, and forever drama laden.She'll also marry any infatuated suitor who promises to make her life more comfortable, no matter how inappropriate he is. (p.88)

Rabih Alameddine

#20. The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.

Saul Bellow

#21. There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

S.I. Hayakawa

#22. The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.

James Hillman

#23. In short, immaturity is spoiled. And what is spoiled doesn't ripen. It goes bad early, gets bitter and withers on the vine.

Gina Barreca

#24. I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.

Woody Allen

#25. Always count your blessings, even if you have to count them through your tears

Eleanor Brownn

#26. The older I get, the less I know. It's wonderful--it makes the world so spacious.

Swami Chetanananda

#27. An old person knows what it's like to be young, but a young person doesn't know what it's like to be old. There's no substitute for life experience.

Eleanor Brownn

#28. They had all grown older, but he still did not feel he had wisdom to go with his aging.

Michael Ondaatje

#29. Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.

Alain De Botton

#30. You've climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now.

Eleanor Brownn

#31. Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.

Anthony Marra

#32. Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.

Corrie Ten Boom

#33. You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

Gary Lutz

#34. My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

Arthur Rimbaud

#35. You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.

Ariel Gore

#36. The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#37. Let us not be bored

Joe Buberger

#38. Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.

Zack Love

#39. (It has become clear to me, for example, that aging itself does not bring wisdom. It often brings regression to childishness, dependency, and bitterness over lost opportunities. Only those who are still intellectually, emotionally, spiritually growing inherit the richness of aging.)

James Hollis

#40. The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Dante Alighieri

#41. Although generally our sight diminishes with age; I submit that our vision improves. The older we get, the more clearly we see our life's decisions played out to their logical conclusions.

David C. Maloney

#42. If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.

Oprah Winfrey

#43. Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.

Miriam Makeba