Old-age Quotes

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that wer...

Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fig...

The Little Boy and the Old ManSaid the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."Said the old man, "I ...

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is...

Hope is sweet.Hope is illumining.Hope is fulfilling.Hope can be everlasting.Therefore, do not give u...

Do not let me hearOf the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,Their fear of fear and frenzy,...

I look into my glass,And view my wasting skin,And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk...

I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one ...

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs ...

Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an ...

Those thoughts come to me in the night, those thought and thoughts of becoming sick or helpless, of ...

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [...

And they had no idea that they and many others were automatically pronounced deadly dull solely on t...

Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experie...

We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were ...

The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few ...

When I was younger, I used to make resolutions, which I imagined were virtuous. I was less anxious t...

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deser...

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, only you.

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most u...

Oh, once you’ve been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn’t want you back.” Veronica settled ...

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a...

[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we kno...

In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousan...

She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old;...

Il arrive un âge où ils ne sont plus séduisants, ni «en forme», comme on dit. Ils ne peuvent plus bo...

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do ...

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the card...

Iturbide exclaimed: "Don't frighten me, General!""Don't be frightened," said the General in a calm v...

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

How old are you?""Ten," answered Tangle."You don't look like it," said the lady."How old are you, pl...

A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he ...

Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Old age is the new childhood.

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilig...

It is too late! Ah, nothing is too lateTill the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.Cato learned Gr...

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

was coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that rese...

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age....

Late-Flowering LustMy head is bald, my breath is bad,Unshaven is my chin,I have not now the joys I h...

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest on...

I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in my eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm ...

He hated old women. They frightened him. There was a smell about them that gave him the willies. The...

Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what...

I blushed. You haven't seen a bald man in his sixties blush? Oh, it happens, just as it does to a ha...

They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle di...

Granny Trill and Granny Wallon were traditional ancients of a kind we won’t see today, the last of t...

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Then his head tipped down on his chest and he fell into the instant sleep of the ancient and the ver...

As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that b...

My aunt must have been perfectly well aware that she would not see Swann again, that she would never...

According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they’re less capable of indignation and better...

After having imposed itself on us like the egomaniac it is, clamouring about its own needs, foisting...

I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after fort...

The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence...

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know every...

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Wheth...

There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...

Old age doth in sharp pains abound;We are belabored by the gout,Our blindness is a dark profound,Our...