The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, m...
The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Looking at things is never time wasted. If your children want to stand and stare, let them. When I was marvelling at the beauty of a painting or enjoying a great view it did not occur to me that the e...
A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well l...
They did not kill Hunger, for people were made to always want new things to taste. They did not destroy Poverty, for poverty reminds us to be humble. They did not destroy Sleep, for people sometimes n...
DisciplineI am old and I have hadmore than my share of good and bad.I've had love and sorrow, seen sudden deathand been left alone and of love bereft.I thought I would never love againand I thought my...
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
Old age is the new childhood.
Left alone, Miss Verney felt so old, lonely and helpless that she began to cry. No builder would tackle that shed, not for any price she could afford. But crying relieved her and she soon felt quite c...
I was quite a looker in my time, she said. Was she reading his mind, or only being smart, to know she must be hideous?Oh, had they invented time as long ago as that?
I blushed. You haven't seen a bald man in his sixties blush? Oh, it happens, just as it does to a hairy, spotty fifteen-year-old. And because it's rarer, it sends the blusher tumbling back to that tim...
He had perhaps seen fifty springs and was therefore already very old, but his tireless body moved with an agility I myself often lacked.
Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.
I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight;...
He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.
We are never old with the strength of the spirit, although the body may fail.
The Little Boy and the Old ManSaid the little boy, Sometimes I drop my spoon.Said the old man, I do that too.The little boy whispered, I wet my pants.I do that too, laughed the little old man.Said the...