Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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...
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...
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...
There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.
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.
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...
Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.
Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.
Being happy is a requisite for longevity.
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.
How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted.
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.
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.