One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of adventure, striking out into unknown fields.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.