I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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;...
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'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.
I'm not senile, I snapped. If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
It wasn't right that you could only understand your parents' pain once you'd experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone.
Oh, once you’ve been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn’t want you back. Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and adjusted her hat just so. We—by whom I mean anyone over sixty—commit tw...
Old age had distilled her down to her essence.
Old age is the new childhood.
Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.
One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly.
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.
Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.
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...
The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.
The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and sent over–and while Father was explaining to he...
The hands were ivory-coloured, the skin finely wrinkled everywhere, like the crust on a pool of wax, and under it appreared livid bruises, arthritic nodes, irregular tea-brown stains. ...The flesh und...
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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