We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.
When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in e...
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...
Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it.
Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
I could go to a dozen houses, scrape away the dirt, and find his footprints, but my own prints evaporated before I ever looked back.
After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.
The good thing about being old is not being young.
Gray hair is the glory of a long life.
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!
In old age, past haunts the present; memories replace the real life!
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fights
When the years are dying in the arms of your life,the earth is in pain moving around the sun.
The glory of the elderly is long life with grey hair.
I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and until I decide I'm too old I'll never be too fucking old.
Old age is a shipwreck.