Jean Paul Quotes About Aging
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Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.
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Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.
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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
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As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
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