Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Old Age
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One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.
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What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
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Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
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One spares old people just as one spares children.
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When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
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What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.
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People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
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It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
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