“So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.”
Growing older changes how we see everything — time, love, ambition, regret. These quotes capture the full arc of aging, from the stubborn optimism of youth to the hard-earned clarity that only comes with years behind you. Whether you are twenty and curious or eighty and reflective, there is something here that will land.
“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
“So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.”
“The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.”
“Live your life and forget your age.”
“We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.”
“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”
“Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.”
“Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.”
“There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.”
“Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.”
“I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.”
“I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.”
“Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.”
“Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.”
“Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.”
“To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.”