Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

People always talk about how time flies; it's become sort of a colloquialism now. You don't really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s - and I'm sure time will move even faster as I get older.

Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did I get so old so quick?

Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

As you get older what you think was 10 years ago was actually 15 years ago.

Age affects how people experience time.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.

Anyone of my age knows that days pass at a far greater speed than when they were young.

You can't halt time.

It's almost mind-boggling how time flies.