Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.
My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.
The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.