Old Age Quotes

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

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

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Nature abhors the old.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

Old age is but a second childhood.

Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.

The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.

It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

Old age and youth cannot live together.

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.

Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.

I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.

I'm left. Okay. And sometimes radically, and sometimes I even shock myself with the degree of radicalness in my own - that I'm allowing to come out in my old age.

In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, "You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it.

Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep in mind that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are not as well off.

In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?