Energy Decline Quotes

To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.

Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don't have the energy.

If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.

My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.

I don't really even go out that much now, except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. I used to be a really friendly person, and now I just want to be invisible. I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

When I was 18, I'd be out four nights a week - I want to have that energy again but I've found I'm a bit old and ready for retirement.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

I had more energy at 25 and did more jiving around. People got to understand that when you're not so interested in something, you're not gonna do it to the best of your ability. I used to get excited working the crowd, but no more.

It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.

I can feel the gradual decline of energy and vitality. And I mean generally, every year, when you know you are not on the same level as last year. But that's life.

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition.

Staying in shape does not come easily, especially as you get older and you don't have as much time or energy to exercise.

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from there.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is the failure to manage contraction. It requires a thoroughgoing reorganization of daily life. No political faction currently operating in the USA gets this. Hence, it is liable to be settled by a contest for dwindling resources and there are many ways in which this won't be pretty.