Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.
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.
Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.
I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.
She is here. And she comes to you, and she does not speak, and the others do not notice her, and she takes your hand, and you ready yourself to die, eyes open, aware this is all an illusion, a last ar...
It is the privilege of old people to seem to know everything. But it’s an act and a mask, like every other act and mask. Between ourselves, we old ones wink at each other and smile, saying, ‘How do yo...
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.
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...
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.
Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fights
Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
What most people fear when they think of old age is the inability to make new friends. If one ever had the faculty of making friends one never loses it however old one grows. Next to love friendship,...
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