Top Old Age Quotes

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!

Real vision dies only when life dies. Once we live, we hope, we yearn for and we aspire to have something!

Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

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.

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

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.

Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.

One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly.

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

They did not kill Hunger, for people were made to always want new things to taste. They did not destroy Poverty, for poverty reminds us to be humble. They did not destroy Sleep, for people sometimes n...

The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

But Saeed’s father was thinking also of the future, even though he did not say this to Saeed, for he feared that if he said this to his son that his son might not go, and he knew above all else that h...

I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am empty...

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.

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.

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...