Top Old Age Quotes

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.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

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.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature o...

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

All diseases run into one, old age.

It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people.

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...

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Be present and aware of the privilege of living.

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...