Quotes on Old Age

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

When Abba Anthony thought about the depths of the judgments of God, he asked, 'Lord, how is it that some die when they are young, while others drag on to extreme old age? Why are there those who are poor and those who are rich? Why do wicked men prosper and why are the just in need?' He heard a voice answering him, 'Antony, keep your attention on yourself; these things are according to the judgment of God, and it is not to your advantage to know anything about them.'

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.

Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age.

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

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.

...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

All diseases run into one, old age.