W. Somerset Maugham Age Quotations

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.