William Hazlitt Quotes about Age

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

William Hazlitt

Time, Mind, Age

William Hazlitt (1934). “The Complete Works of William Hazlitt”

It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.

William Hazlitt

Men, Age, Stronger

William Hazlitt (1933). “The Complete Works of William Hazlitt”

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

William Hazlitt

Attachment, Long, Age

William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.7

There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.

William Hazlitt

Cutting, Years, Age