Top Old Age Quotes

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in my eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm gro...

Old age isn't a battle old age is a massacre.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

A person in her twenties has been a child for most of her life, but as time goes by that portion that is childhood becomes smaller and smaller, more and more distant, more and more faded, though they...

Being happy is a requisite for longevity.

Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.

How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

They say that as one grows older one mellows, become more tolerant. Perhaps. Sometimes I think it is more a stripping off, a peeling away of irrelevancies. But somehwere in youth, as childhood is left...

I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory.

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.

Song of elli (old age)What is plucked will grow again,What is slain lives on,What is stolen will remainWhat is gone is gone...What is sea-born dies on land,Soft is trod upon.What is given burns the ha...

And then I laugh, because it's so ridiculous and so gorgeous and it's all I an do to not melt into a fit of giggles. So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wrec...

One Must Always Remember That Birth, Old Age, Disease And Death Comes At Any Moment In Regardless Of Whom We Are Or What We Have In Forms Of Material Possession.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.

The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.