Old Age Quotes

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.

The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

Old age ain't for sissies

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

They think I'm too old to cause trouble. Old age is a powerful disguise.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

Old age makes caricatures of us all.

He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.

When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do destroy it.

Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.

No lie ever reaches old age.

I have a thing for things that last.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.