Old Age Quotes
To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.
I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.
Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.
I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.
I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.
Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.
You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you
While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.
About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.
For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.
It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.
Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.
Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.