43 Timeless And Wise Quotes

In a world constantly buzzing with transient trends and fleeting moments, there exists a realm where words transcend time, offering wisdom and clarity. These are the words spoken by thinkers, leaders, and visionaries whose insights continue to resonate across generations. Capturing the essence of human experience, these quotes offer guidance, inspiration, and profound understanding. Whether you are seeking motivation, solace, or a new perspective, delve into this curated collection of 43 timeless and wise quotes—a treasure trove of enduring wisdom waiting to be explored.

1. “The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” - H.L. Mencken

2. “I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.” - Virginia Woolf

3. “Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.” - robert heinlein

4. “You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.” - Michael Pritchard

5. “O: Hey youngman, you should respect me!Y: Hey oldman, you should understand me!” - Toba Beta

6. “We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.” - Erich Maria Remarque

7. “...you never knows where a spark may drop and a fire begin to run.” - George Manville Fenn

8. “Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.” - Vera Nazarian

9. “The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.Its clear tones resound in the placid silence of the winter day, and echo long into the silver-blue serenity of night.The bell can only be seen at the turning of the year, when the days wind down into nothing, and get ready to march out again.When you hear the bell, you feel a tug at your heart.It is your immortal inspiration.” - Vera Nazarian

10. “Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.” - Robert Orben

11. “We were young. Everyone was young in those days. That’s the main complaint you hear from people who are getting old. You stop seeing young people. You begin to wonder if there are any left and whether there were only young people when you were young.” - Lloyd Jones

12. “I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead.” - Emilie Autumn

13. “I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.” - Portia De Rossi

14. “Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society. I see today the society presumes technology will have a different treatment.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

15. “You see yourself as if old and wise.I see you really miss your childhood.” - Toba Beta

16. “Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

17. “When you're young, you say what you feel.When you're adult, you speak what you think.When you grow old, you listen to what nature says.” - Toba Beta

18. “Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.” - Oscar Wilde

19. “The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima—the “eternal present.” - H.E. Davey

20. “People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.” - Megan Chance

21. “Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.” - Gayla Reid

22. “Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “Egg, I dreamed that I was old.” - George R.R. Martin

23. “تخيلات الشباب عن الشيخوخة ضلال، تخيلات الشيخوخة عن الشباب حسرات.” - نجيب محفوظ

24. “It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you will always see the face you loved and won. And a woman who really loves a man does not see that he grows old; he is not decrepit to her; he does not tremble; he is not old; she always sees the same gallant gentleman who won her hand and heart. I like to think of it in that way; I like to think that love is eternal. And to love in that way and then go down the hill of life together, and as you go down, hear, perhaps, the laughter of grandchildren, while the birds of joy and love sing once more in the leafless branches of the tree of age.” - Robert Ingersoll

25. “She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk ...” - Ann Brashares

26. “At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.” - Chris Van Allsburg

27. “The good thing about being old is not being young.” - Stephen Richards

28. “Decker went to Greece a few summers ago and showed me pictures from his trip. "Aren't these awesome?" he had said, pointing out photographs of the ancient ruins."Awesome" I agreed, but I felt dizzy. The ruins were just a reminder that what had been was no longer. That everything we are will be gone someday. That I will be forgotten.” - Megan Miranda

29. “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old” - Peter Drucker

30. “George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.” - Elisabeth Elliot

31. “Ik ben niet bevreesd, noch voor de ouderdom noch voor de dood, maar berusting is me schrikbeeld. Nooit zou ik aan de oevers waar braafheid en gezapigheid wonen, willen aanleggen. Ik ben nu vijfentachtig, ik schrijf nog steeds en ik zou nog tot liefhebben in staat zijn.” - claire goll

32. “I don't know.  I don't really like old movies.  The acting is so, 'Hey buddy, ol' pal.  Let's go wear our hats and have a big misunderstanding” - Stephanie Perkins

33. “Off with the old and on with the new and never a second's thought between.” - Helen Hodgman

34. “A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.” - Jane Yolen

35. “A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.” - Brennan Manning

36. “He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly old and crippled. Turned out the rope didn't care if you noticed every daisy on the path to the gallows.” - Chris Cleave

37. “It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the old ways of being and behaving, so that you were gradually a stranger to the place you lived in. The woman priest with jogging clothes and a BlackBerry gave Mary a glimpse of what life must have been like for her mother as she grew older.” - John Lanchester

38. “Her face looked like a fruit from which all the juice had been sucked.” - Brian Herbert

39. “The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.” - John Scalzi

40. “At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.” - Mark Jenkins

41. “When someone says they feel old, I always want to ask them why they feel old. Time passes for everyone. No one is exempt.” - Donna Lynn Hope

42. “He may be old now, but he is still a hero in their eyes” - Loretta Livingstone

43. “He turned to take one last look at the Old People’s Home that – until a few moments ago – he had thought would be his last residence on Earth, and then he told himself that he could die some other time, in some other place.The hundred-year-old man set off in his pee-slippers (so called because men of an advanced age rarely pee further than their shoes), first through a park and then alongside an open field where a market was occasionally held in the otherwise quiet provincial town.” - Jonas Jonasson