Old Age Quotes
The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.
Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.
One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid down.
You ought to love and care for your parents in their old age.
I'm past competing in pissing contests. My jet stream is now more of a trickle. The only contest I'd win is the number of trips to the bathroom it takes to purge a 32oz soda.
Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice
If you see an old man talking to himself, he might not be a fool or crazy. He might be sharing a conversation with the past, warmed by a memory he need not reveal.
The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.
Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”“Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.
A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.
When you suspect old age is catching up with you, live faster!
...one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth.
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going.
Real vision dies only when life dies. Once we live, we hope, we yearn for and we aspire to have something!
Now that I’ve reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I’ve learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like… That’s as far as I’ve gotten I’m afraid.
Then his head tipped down on his chest and he fell into the instant sleep of the ancient and the very young.
The cancer set into her bones and whittled her down to nothing. The weariness of the world and the weight in her heart laid her to rest in January.
Old age robs you of every last illusion, even the belief in your own goodness.
I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory."--Fidelis O Mkparu
The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.
To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.
Old Age- You can tell when you're getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)
Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail.
Old people die not because no one cared for them but because someone they expected care from did not bother.
Older age has taught one crucial lesson about life. It has taught me that regardless of where I've been I still have much to see and despite every fall I still haven't experienced it all.
A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love.
Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.
One Must Always Remember That Birth, Old Age, Disease And Death Comes At Any Moment In Regardless Of Whom We Are Or What We Have In Forms Of Material Possession.
I look into my glass, And view my wasting skin, And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!
If you don't do anything stupid when you're young, you won't remember something funny when you're old.
Moderation is the key to old age and the doorway to boredom
They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.