Top 500 Age Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.”

— Adrienne Rich

102. “Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

103. “Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.”

— George Carlin

104. “At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.”

— George Orwell

105. “The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.”

— Carl Sagan

106. “It’s the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.”

— Dan Brown

107. “Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.”

— Indira Gandhi

108. “The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face.”

— Pablo Picasso

109. “If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.”

— Tori Amos

110. “I shall grow old, but never lose life’s zest, because the road’s last turn will be the best.”

— Henry van Dyke

111. “Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.”

— Swami Vivekananda

112. “If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.”

— Warren Buffett

113. “Age is just a number. Who cares how old the girl is that I date?”

— Niall Horan

114. “No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What is a claim of power for ones who defy death? Call your damnable hunt. We shall see whom I drag screaming to hell with me.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

115. “We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

116. “Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.”

— Cecelia Ahern

117. “With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don’t feel like I’m seeking approval as much as I used to from other people.”

— Terri Clark

118. “No matter your age, stage of life, or circumstances, don’t forget to dare to dream with God. You don’t have to figure anything out. Just keep saying yes to Him, in big ways and small, and watch what He does.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

119. “Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.”

— Alex Ferguson

120. “We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.”

— Franz Kafka

121. “And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.”

— Ernest Hemingway

122. “We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”

— Aldous Huxley

123. “There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.”

— Milan Kundera

124. “In framing a system, which we wish to last for ages, we should not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce.”

— James Madison

125. “Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.”

— John Milton

126. “We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.”

— Konrad Adenauer

127. “We all have souls of different ages.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

128. “To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person – few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.”

— Clarence Darrow

129. “Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?”

— Marcus Aurelius

130. “Now is the age of anxiety.”

— W.H. Auden

131. “We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.”

— Yukio Mishima

132. “The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

133. “Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?”

— Eckhart Tolle

134. “No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.”

— Ernest Hemingway

135. “When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.”

— Marcel Proust

136. “Someday when you’re twenty, maybe, I’ll see you again. You’ll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I’ll see you and I’ll pray you want me still.”

— Ann Brashares

137. “In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.”

— Marquis de Sade

138. “Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

139. “But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”

— Oscar Wilde

140. “One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.”

— Henry David Thoreau

141. “What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment’s surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.”

— T. S. Eliot

142. “Old age and the passage of time teach all things.”

— Sophocles

143. “The Golden Age was never the present age.”

— Benjamin Franklin

144. “In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age.”

— Jack Kerouac

145. “A man growing old becomes a child again.”

— Sophocles

146. “The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.”

— Brennan Manning

147. “In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you.”

— Madonna

148. “The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

149. “As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.”

— Steven Chu

150. “But old fools is the biggest fools there is.”

— Mark Twain