Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Old Age
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.
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The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.
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Nature abhors the old.
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In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.
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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.
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Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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