Top Old Age Quotes

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

There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me - Maester Cressen

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

The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, m...

Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters.

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...

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

DisciplineI am old and I have hadmore than my share of good and bad.I've had love and sorrow, seen sudden deathand been left alone and of love bereft.I thought I would never love againand I thought my...

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...

According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they’re less capable of indignation and better at being humiliated, for what is old age but one long string of indignities? What person of integri...

At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkl...

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

Looking at things is never time wasted. If your children want to stand and stare, let them. When I was marvelling at the beauty of a painting or enjoying a great view it did not occur to me that the e...

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...

Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

I was quite a looker in my time, she said. Was she reading his mind, or only being smart, to know she must be hideous?Oh, had they invented time as long ago as that?