Old Age Quotes
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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
Socrates
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
Marilyn Monroe
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
Victor Hugo
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
Victor Hugo
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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Judith Viorst
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By not dealing with past human rights violations, we are not simply protecting the perpetrators' trivial old age ; we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
Antjie Krog
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See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.
J. P. Donleavy
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In old age, she thought, how it all falls away. Your good opinion of yourself, all the virtues you had thought you had, your beauty, your wealth.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.
Lord Byron
