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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Age

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Getting Older, Age, Fascination

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mean Girls, Women, Age

I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Order, Age, Ministry
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1832-1834”

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Age, Desire
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.73, Penguin

The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age, Loud, Condemnation
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, Penguin

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age, Individual, Riddle
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2254, Delphi Classics

Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Keys, Age
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics

In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Serenity, Age, Behavior
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.292

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Growth, Age
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.69, Penguin

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mean, Age, Belief
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Differences, Age, Ugly
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.317, Courier Corporation

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age, Reform, Opinion
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power, Years, Age
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.160, Harvard University Press

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intelligent, Age, Hundred
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4069, Delphi Classics

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morning, Men, Age
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.142, Harvard University Press

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Age, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1003, Library of America

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, Men, Age

The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age, Looks, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3229, Delphi Classics

Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Wrinkles, Age
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.306, Courier Corporation

Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age, Comfort, Relief
Journal, 1864, in Linda Allardt et al. (eds.) 'The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson' vol. 15, 1860-6 (1982) p. 428

Nature abhors the old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age, Old Age, Growing Old
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.159, Penguin

Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age, Fit, Surroundings
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.161, Harvard University Press

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age, Needs, Young
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.183, Penguin

We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Understanding, Age, Liberty
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.943, Library of America

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essence, Age, Intellect
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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