Habit " You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you "...
- Mark Twain
I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.'
'What do you fear, lady?' he (Aragorn) asked.
'A cage,' she said. 'To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.
- J R R Tolkien
For sixty years, the Ring lay quiet in Bilbo's keeping, prolonging his life, delaying old age. But no longer, Frodo. Evil is stirring in Mordor. The Ring has awoken. It's heard its Master's call.
- J R R Tolkien
And what do you fear lady ' he asked. 'A cage ' she said. 'To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.
- J R R Tolkien
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
- Joseph Addison
She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.
- Paulo Coelho
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
- Louisa May Alcott
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
- Muhammad Ali
No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.
- Ernest Hemingway
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
- Ernest Hemingway
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
- Noel Coward
How young can you die of old age?
- Steven Wright
La Lowell wanted nothing; she lived for the day, unfettered, free, fearless; she wasn't afraid of poverty, loneliness, or infirmity. She accepted everything with good grace; for her, life was an entertaining voyage that inevitably led to old age and death. There was no point in accumulating wealth since in the end, she maintained, we all go to the grave in our birthday suit.
- Isabel Allende
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
- Michelangelo
Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
- Antiphanes
The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.
- Plato
Education is the best provision for old age.
- Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
- Aristotle
...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.
- Machado De Assis
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
- Thomas Carlyle
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Francis Bacon
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
- Ausonius
So weak, so little left, time running out. I will be robbed of my old age. I try not to feel bitter about it, but sometimes I can't help myself. Life is shit, I know, but the only thing I want is more life, more years on this godforsaken earth.
- Paul Auster
In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
- Hank Azaria
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
- John Burroughs
One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
- Oscar Wilde
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
- Oscar Wilde
Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.
- Julian Barnes
For Montaigne, the death of youth, which so often takes place unnoticed is the harder death; what we habitually refer to as 'death' is no more than the death of old age...The leap from the attenuated survival of senescence into nonexistence is much easier than the sly transition from heedless youth crabbed and regretful age.
- Julian Barnes
Old age is the verdict of life.
- Amelia Barr
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
- Roland Barthes
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
- Bernard Baruch
No matter how good the walls and the materials are; if the foundations are not strong, the building will not stand. By and by, in some upper room, a crack will appear; and men will say: "There is the crack; but the cause is the foundation." So if, in youth, you lay the foundation of your character wrongly, the penalty will be sure to follow. The crack may be far down in old age, but somewhere it will certainly appear.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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.
- Nina Bawden
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
- Jean Paul
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.
- Jean Paul
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
- Simone De Beauvoir
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
- Simone De Beauvoir
I always thought old age would be a writer's best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory's gone, all the old fluency's disappeared. I don't write a single sentence without saying to myself, 'It's a lie!' So I know I was right. It's the best chance I've ever had.
- Samuel Beckett
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we all are put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedom--which is bordered on all sides by isolation--is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.
- Saul Bellow
In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.
- Robert Benton
Good-bye if you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a Gringo in Mexico ah, that is euthanasia.
- Ambrose Bierce
Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.
- Ambrose Bierce
I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
- Maeve Binchy
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.
- Jim Bishop
What if experience is disappointment, and a human's old age has not a sense and all what we acquire in our lifetime is a habit for disappointment?
- Lara Biyuts
Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
- Bjork
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
- Alan Bleasdale
One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself capable of accomodating one's love; and jealously, because it can become the image of one's limitations in time and space, and yet can give the Proustian blessing of more life.
- Harold Bloom
In my old age (smirk), I seem to have become a creature of habit. I have order, schedules, quirky little activities I dig that fill up my days. Even though I hang alone, I hang alone well.
- Rebecca Bloom
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
- Lionel Blue
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
- Ronald Blythe
I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.
- Simon Le Bon
Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.
- William Shakespeare
And what, you ask, does writing teach us?
First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation.
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.
- Ray Bradbury
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
- Anne Bradstreet
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.
- Charlotte Bronte
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
- Bill Bryson
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.
- Anne Tyler
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.
- Pearl S Buck
There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?
- Warren Buffett
It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.
- Warren Buffett
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.Nothing does --- except wrinkles.It's true,some wines improves with age.But only if the grapes were good in the first place
- Abigail Van Buren
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!
- Leo Buscaglia
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
- Michael Caine
Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.
- Andrea Camilleri
Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.
- Willa Cather
In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.
- Bruce Catton
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
- Stephen King
When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.
- Bertrand Russell
I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'
- Cher
The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.
- Ron Chernow
All diseases run into one, old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I prefer old age to the alternative.
- Maurice Chevalier
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
- Maurice Chevalier
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
- Maurice Chevalier
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
- Lydia M Child
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
- Frank A Clark
I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
- Marilyn Monroe
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax This won't hurt
- Hunter S Thompson
It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways.
- Terry Pratchett
Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.
- Terry Pratchett
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
- Will Durant
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
- Confucius
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
- Mason Cooley
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
- Tommy Cooper
Old age is no place for sissies.
- Bette Davis
So she sat down to morning tea, like any other old lady with a high nose, thin cheeks, a ring on her finger and the usual trappings of rather shabby but gallant old age..
- Virginia Woolf
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
- Bob Wells
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
- Isaac D Israeli
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
- Isaac Disraeli
Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy.
- Edwidge Danticat
Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.
- Bobby Darin
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
- Muriel Spark
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
- Robertson Davies
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
- Emily Dickinson
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
- Denis Diderot
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
- Phyllis Diller
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
- Dorothy Dix
I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.
- Betty Dodson
See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.
- J P Donleavy
She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna was forty-three, her face still retained traces of her former beauty; she looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age. We may add in parenthesis that to preserve all this is the only means of retaining beauty to old age.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
- Lawrence Durrell
Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.
- Charles Alexander Eastman
The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's?
- Umberto Eco
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
- Leon Edel
I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.
- Chiwetel Ejiofor
He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.
- George Eliot
I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream..
- Black Elk
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Ruthless is the temper of royalty; How much better to live among the equals.Let me decline in a safe old age. The very name of the "middle way".
- Euripides
In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.
- Oriana Fallaci
I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
- Frances Farmer
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
We recived our colouring from the Norsemen,hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees.We are the ones who sacked Rome.Fear only feeble old age and death in bed.Don't forget who you are.
- Janet Fitch
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
- Victor Hugo
He had given Cosette a dress of Binche lace that had come down to him from his own grandmother. "These fashions have come round again," he said, "old things are all the rage, and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my childhood,
- Victor Hugo
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
- Gene Fowler
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
- Felix Frankfurter
She was at the age when she looked as much like an overgrown boy as a girl. And on that subject why was it that the smartest people mostly missed that point? By nature all people are of both sexes. So that marriage and the bed is not all by any means. The proof? Real youth and old age. Because often old men's voices grow high and reedy and the take on a mincing walk. And old women sometimes grow fat and their voices get rough and deep and the grow dark little mustaches.
- Carson Mccullers
Heads in the Women's Ward
On pillow after pillow lies
The wild white hair and staring eyes;
Jaws stand open; necks are stretched
With every tendon sharply sketched;
A bearded mouth talks silently
To someone no one else can see.
Sixty years ago they smiled
At lover, husband, first-born child.
Smiles are for youth. For old age come
Death's terror and delirium.
- Philip Larkin
I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me: in other words, old age, incapacity, loneliness, death of others & myself..
- Philip Larkin
It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This is to say, their inner purpose would emerge only as their outer purpose collapsed and the shell of the ego would begin to crack open. The emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: being? What do you do with it?
- Eckhart Tolle
I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
Old age is a shipwreck.
- Charles De Gaulle
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
- Martha Gellhorn
Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
- David Gemmell
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
- Thomas Hardy
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
- Ira Gershwin
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
- Baltasar Gracian
I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
- Billy Graham
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.
- Heather Graham
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality and permanence be damned. Sure I want them, but they are nonexistent, and won't matter when I rot underground. All I want to say is: I made the best of a mediocre job. It was a good fight while it lasted. And so life goes.
- Sylvia Plath
The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably. In Japan, she said, a person learned not to complain or be distracted by suffering. To persevere was always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy, and one's perspective. It was best to accept old age, death, injustice, hardship all of these were part of living
- David Guterson
Old age begins when reflection overcomes planning.
- L Michael Hager
I know now one must plan one's old age as surely as one plans any other stage of life. The tragedy of Cousin Josie's life is that she never knew what she wanted at any ageonly what she did not want. She never wanted to marry nor to pursue a career, and in life, unlike grammar, double negatives do not produce an affirmative.
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
- Knut Hamsun
Crotch biting menace:I have my mouth in close proximity to your genitals.Oh thou man who talks to my mistress over coffee.Do not irk or trifle with me! I possess but one tooth, oh, yes, for the rest were buried long ago in the flesh of sinners.Behold my jaws, upper and lower in righteous, symmetrical poverty.Move not, man of clocks, and heed my mistress, for she cherishes me, even in my foul old age.
- Nick Harkaway
She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went. One day death would come for her, and she would not find that surprising either, and she would not care -
- Robert Harris
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
- Anna Held
Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
- Robert Henri
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
- Hesiod
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
- Herman Hesse
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.
- Gordon B Hinckley
Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is more than the end of the rainbow. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shinning through death.
- Gordon B Hinckley
I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.
- S E Hinton
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky
Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.
- Eric Hoffer
Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.
- Robert Hughes
Outside, in the hallway, my mother stopped. She pressed both hands to her chest, closed her eyes, and said under her breath, 'It's so bitter.'
'What, Mama?'
'Old age.' [p. 187]
- Siri Hustvedt
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
- Aldous Huxley
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?
- Aldous Huxley
In my old age, I see that life is often more fantastic and terrible than stories we believed as children, and that perhaps there is no harm in finding magic among the trees.
- Eowyn Ivey
In my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children, and that perhaps there is no harm in finding magic among the trees.
- Eowyn Ivey
I walk in this garden
holding the hands of dead friends.
Old age came quickly for my frosted generation, cold, cold, cold they died so silently.
- Derek Jarman
Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.
- Robert Jordan
Wrinkles don't signify old age, they signify a lack of ironing skills or a dearth of hangers to hang clothes on.
- Jarod Kintz
Too many men have died in the name of old age. I know, because my grandmother was one of them.
- Jarod Kintz
Death is comingbut hopefully not before old age, decrepitude, and senility.
- Jarod Kintz
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
- Beverly Sills
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day,
Charm'd the small-pox, or chased old age away;
Who would not scorn what housewife's cares produce,
Or who would learn one earthly thing of use?
- Alexander Pope
In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age.
- Jack Kerouac
On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Dying is beautiful- even the first time around, at the ripe old age of 20. It's not easy most of the time, but there is real beauty to be found in knowing that your end is going to catch up with you faster than you had expected, and that you have to get all your loving and laughing and crying done as soon as you can.
- Norma Klein
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
- Louis Kronenberger
There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.
- John Agyekum Kufuor
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
- Maggie Kuhn
Old age is a woman's hell.
- Ninon De Lenclos
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
- Lactantius
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
- Walter Savage Landor
He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri.And as Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab's soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
- Herman Melville
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
- Herman Melville
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.
- Giacomo Leopardi
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
- Giacomo Leopardi
My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.
- C S Lewis
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
- C S Lewis
Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.
- C S Lewis
I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.
- Huey Lewis
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth..
- Sinclair Lewis
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
- Sinclair Lewis
A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.
- Wyndham Lewis
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
- Charles Spurgeon
...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.
- George Macdonald
- Mark Twain
I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.'
'What do you fear, lady?' he (Aragorn) asked.
'A cage,' she said. 'To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.
- J R R Tolkien
For sixty years, the Ring lay quiet in Bilbo's keeping, prolonging his life, delaying old age. But no longer, Frodo. Evil is stirring in Mordor. The Ring has awoken. It's heard its Master's call.
- J R R Tolkien
And what do you fear lady ' he asked. 'A cage ' she said. 'To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.
- J R R Tolkien
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
- Joseph Addison
She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.
- Paulo Coelho
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
- Louisa May Alcott
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
- Muhammad Ali
No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.
- Ernest Hemingway
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
- Ernest Hemingway
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
- Noel Coward
How young can you die of old age?
- Steven Wright
La Lowell wanted nothing; she lived for the day, unfettered, free, fearless; she wasn't afraid of poverty, loneliness, or infirmity. She accepted everything with good grace; for her, life was an entertaining voyage that inevitably led to old age and death. There was no point in accumulating wealth since in the end, she maintained, we all go to the grave in our birthday suit.
- Isabel Allende
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
- Michelangelo
Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
- Antiphanes
The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.
- Plato
Education is the best provision for old age.
- Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
- Aristotle
...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.
- Machado De Assis
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
- Thomas Carlyle
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Francis Bacon
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
- Ausonius
So weak, so little left, time running out. I will be robbed of my old age. I try not to feel bitter about it, but sometimes I can't help myself. Life is shit, I know, but the only thing I want is more life, more years on this godforsaken earth.
- Paul Auster
In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
- Hank Azaria
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
- John Burroughs
One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
- Oscar Wilde
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
- Oscar Wilde
Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.
- Julian Barnes
For Montaigne, the death of youth, which so often takes place unnoticed is the harder death; what we habitually refer to as 'death' is no more than the death of old age...The leap from the attenuated survival of senescence into nonexistence is much easier than the sly transition from heedless youth crabbed and regretful age.
- Julian Barnes
Old age is the verdict of life.
- Amelia Barr
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
- Roland Barthes
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
- Bernard Baruch
No matter how good the walls and the materials are; if the foundations are not strong, the building will not stand. By and by, in some upper room, a crack will appear; and men will say: "There is the crack; but the cause is the foundation." So if, in youth, you lay the foundation of your character wrongly, the penalty will be sure to follow. The crack may be far down in old age, but somewhere it will certainly appear.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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.
- Nina Bawden
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
- Jean Paul
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.
- Jean Paul
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
- Simone De Beauvoir
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
- Simone De Beauvoir
I always thought old age would be a writer's best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory's gone, all the old fluency's disappeared. I don't write a single sentence without saying to myself, 'It's a lie!' So I know I was right. It's the best chance I've ever had.
- Samuel Beckett
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we all are put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedom--which is bordered on all sides by isolation--is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.
- Saul Bellow
In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.
- Robert Benton
Good-bye if you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a Gringo in Mexico ah, that is euthanasia.
- Ambrose Bierce
Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.
- Ambrose Bierce
I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
- Maeve Binchy
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.
- Jim Bishop
What if experience is disappointment, and a human's old age has not a sense and all what we acquire in our lifetime is a habit for disappointment?
- Lara Biyuts
Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
- Bjork
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
- Alan Bleasdale
One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself capable of accomodating one's love; and jealously, because it can become the image of one's limitations in time and space, and yet can give the Proustian blessing of more life.
- Harold Bloom
In my old age (smirk), I seem to have become a creature of habit. I have order, schedules, quirky little activities I dig that fill up my days. Even though I hang alone, I hang alone well.
- Rebecca Bloom
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
- Lionel Blue
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
- Ronald Blythe
I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.
- Simon Le Bon
Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.
- William Shakespeare
And what, you ask, does writing teach us?
First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation.
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.
- Ray Bradbury
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
- Anne Bradstreet
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.
- Charlotte Bronte
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
- Bill Bryson
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.
- Anne Tyler
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.
- Pearl S Buck
There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?
- Warren Buffett
It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.
- Warren Buffett
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.Nothing does --- except wrinkles.It's true,some wines improves with age.But only if the grapes were good in the first place
- Abigail Van Buren
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!
- Leo Buscaglia
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
- Michael Caine
Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.
- Andrea Camilleri
Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.
- Willa Cather
In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.
- Bruce Catton
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
- Stephen King
When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.
- Bertrand Russell
I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'
- Cher
The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.
- Ron Chernow
All diseases run into one, old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I prefer old age to the alternative.
- Maurice Chevalier
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
- Maurice Chevalier
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
- Maurice Chevalier
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
- Lydia M Child
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
- Frank A Clark
I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
- Marilyn Monroe
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax This won't hurt
- Hunter S Thompson
It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways.
- Terry Pratchett
Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.
- Terry Pratchett
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
- Will Durant
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
- Confucius
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
- Mason Cooley
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
- Tommy Cooper
Old age is no place for sissies.
- Bette Davis
So she sat down to morning tea, like any other old lady with a high nose, thin cheeks, a ring on her finger and the usual trappings of rather shabby but gallant old age..
- Virginia Woolf
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
- Bob Wells
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
- Isaac D Israeli
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
- Isaac Disraeli
Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy.
- Edwidge Danticat
Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.
- Bobby Darin
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
- Muriel Spark
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
- Robertson Davies
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
- Emily Dickinson
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
- Denis Diderot
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
- Phyllis Diller
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
- Dorothy Dix
I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.
- Betty Dodson
See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.
- J P Donleavy
She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna was forty-three, her face still retained traces of her former beauty; she looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age. We may add in parenthesis that to preserve all this is the only means of retaining beauty to old age.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
- Lawrence Durrell
Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.
- Charles Alexander Eastman
The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's?
- Umberto Eco
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
- Leon Edel
I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.
- Chiwetel Ejiofor
He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.
- George Eliot
I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream..
- Black Elk
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Ruthless is the temper of royalty; How much better to live among the equals.Let me decline in a safe old age. The very name of the "middle way".
- Euripides
In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.
- Oriana Fallaci
I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
- Frances Farmer
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
We recived our colouring from the Norsemen,hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees.We are the ones who sacked Rome.Fear only feeble old age and death in bed.Don't forget who you are.
- Janet Fitch
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
- Victor Hugo
He had given Cosette a dress of Binche lace that had come down to him from his own grandmother. "These fashions have come round again," he said, "old things are all the rage, and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my childhood,
- Victor Hugo
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
- Gene Fowler
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
- Felix Frankfurter
She was at the age when she looked as much like an overgrown boy as a girl. And on that subject why was it that the smartest people mostly missed that point? By nature all people are of both sexes. So that marriage and the bed is not all by any means. The proof? Real youth and old age. Because often old men's voices grow high and reedy and the take on a mincing walk. And old women sometimes grow fat and their voices get rough and deep and the grow dark little mustaches.
- Carson Mccullers
Heads in the Women's Ward
On pillow after pillow lies
The wild white hair and staring eyes;
Jaws stand open; necks are stretched
With every tendon sharply sketched;
A bearded mouth talks silently
To someone no one else can see.
Sixty years ago they smiled
At lover, husband, first-born child.
Smiles are for youth. For old age come
Death's terror and delirium.
- Philip Larkin
I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me: in other words, old age, incapacity, loneliness, death of others & myself..
- Philip Larkin
It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This is to say, their inner purpose would emerge only as their outer purpose collapsed and the shell of the ego would begin to crack open. The emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: being? What do you do with it?
- Eckhart Tolle
I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
Old age is a shipwreck.
- Charles De Gaulle
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
- Martha Gellhorn
Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
- David Gemmell
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
- Thomas Hardy
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
- Ira Gershwin
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
- Baltasar Gracian
I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
- Billy Graham
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.
- Heather Graham
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality and permanence be damned. Sure I want them, but they are nonexistent, and won't matter when I rot underground. All I want to say is: I made the best of a mediocre job. It was a good fight while it lasted. And so life goes.
- Sylvia Plath
The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably. In Japan, she said, a person learned not to complain or be distracted by suffering. To persevere was always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy, and one's perspective. It was best to accept old age, death, injustice, hardship all of these were part of living
- David Guterson
Old age begins when reflection overcomes planning.
- L Michael Hager
I know now one must plan one's old age as surely as one plans any other stage of life. The tragedy of Cousin Josie's life is that she never knew what she wanted at any ageonly what she did not want. She never wanted to marry nor to pursue a career, and in life, unlike grammar, double negatives do not produce an affirmative.
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
- Knut Hamsun
Crotch biting menace:I have my mouth in close proximity to your genitals.Oh thou man who talks to my mistress over coffee.Do not irk or trifle with me! I possess but one tooth, oh, yes, for the rest were buried long ago in the flesh of sinners.Behold my jaws, upper and lower in righteous, symmetrical poverty.Move not, man of clocks, and heed my mistress, for she cherishes me, even in my foul old age.
- Nick Harkaway
She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went. One day death would come for her, and she would not find that surprising either, and she would not care -
- Robert Harris
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
- Anna Held
Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
- Robert Henri
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
- Hesiod
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
- Herman Hesse
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.
- Gordon B Hinckley
Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is more than the end of the rainbow. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shinning through death.
- Gordon B Hinckley
I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.
- S E Hinton
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky
Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.
- Eric Hoffer
Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.
- Robert Hughes
Outside, in the hallway, my mother stopped. She pressed both hands to her chest, closed her eyes, and said under her breath, 'It's so bitter.'
'What, Mama?'
'Old age.' [p. 187]
- Siri Hustvedt
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
- Aldous Huxley
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?
- Aldous Huxley
In my old age, I see that life is often more fantastic and terrible than stories we believed as children, and that perhaps there is no harm in finding magic among the trees.
- Eowyn Ivey
In my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children, and that perhaps there is no harm in finding magic among the trees.
- Eowyn Ivey
I walk in this garden
holding the hands of dead friends.
Old age came quickly for my frosted generation, cold, cold, cold they died so silently.
- Derek Jarman
Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.
- Robert Jordan
Wrinkles don't signify old age, they signify a lack of ironing skills or a dearth of hangers to hang clothes on.
- Jarod Kintz
Too many men have died in the name of old age. I know, because my grandmother was one of them.
- Jarod Kintz
Death is comingbut hopefully not before old age, decrepitude, and senility.
- Jarod Kintz
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
- Beverly Sills
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day,
Charm'd the small-pox, or chased old age away;
Who would not scorn what housewife's cares produce,
Or who would learn one earthly thing of use?
- Alexander Pope
In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age.
- Jack Kerouac
On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Dying is beautiful- even the first time around, at the ripe old age of 20. It's not easy most of the time, but there is real beauty to be found in knowing that your end is going to catch up with you faster than you had expected, and that you have to get all your loving and laughing and crying done as soon as you can.
- Norma Klein
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
- Louis Kronenberger
There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.
- John Agyekum Kufuor
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
- Maggie Kuhn
Old age is a woman's hell.
- Ninon De Lenclos
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
- Lactantius
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
- Walter Savage Landor
He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri.And as Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab's soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
- Herman Melville
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
- Herman Melville
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.
- Giacomo Leopardi
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
- Giacomo Leopardi
My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.
- C S Lewis
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
- C S Lewis
Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.
- C S Lewis
I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.
- Huey Lewis
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth..
- Sinclair Lewis
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
- Sinclair Lewis
A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.
- Wyndham Lewis
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
- Charles Spurgeon
...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.
- George Macdonald
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