Old Age Quotes
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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.
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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
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See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.
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Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
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Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.
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The only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of things as they are now when we compare them to things as they used to be.
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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.
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Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.
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The fires of youth are not dead in old age... only banked down.
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Old age begins at the moment when a person has lost his ability to learn.
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Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in which—by means of a sort of snapshot—we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it.
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Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
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When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
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Old age is no place for sissies.
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
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One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
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Old age is the lubricant of belief.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.
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Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
