Old Age Quotes And Sayings

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“Man, like the fruit he eats, has his period of ripeness. Like that, too, if he continues longer hanging to the stem, it is but an useless and unsightly appendage.”
– Anonymous

“How young can you die of old age?”
– Anonymous

“The good thing about being old is not being young.”
– Anonymous

“When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self- opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring … Wow, it’s good to be old!”
– Anonymous

“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.”
– Anonymous

“Outside, in the hallway, my mother stopped. She pressed both hands to her chest, closed her eyes, and said under her breath, ‘It’s so bitter.’ ‘What, Mama?’ ‘Old age.’”
– Anonymous

“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.”
– Anonymous

“Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside — from others. We do not accept it willingly. ”
– Anonymous

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, ‘A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!”
– Anonymous

“He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.”
– Anonymous

“In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day’s long.”
– Anonymous

“Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.”
– Anonymous

“It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.”
– Anonymous

“You can’t be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: “Holy Christ, whaddya know — I’m still around!”"
– Anonymous

“In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it’s with someone you care for.”
– Anonymous

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”
– Anonymous

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”
– Anonymous

“The old are apt to mistake age for experience, and to imagine they are privileged to give good advice, though they may have lived only to afford bad example.”
– Anonymous

“Our lives can’t be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.”
– Anonymous

“It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
– Anonymous

“That’s the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain’t been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.”
– Anonymous

“If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.”
– Anonymous

“When we’re young we have faith in what is seen, but when we’re old we know that what is seen is traced in air and built on water.”
– Anonymous

“A comfortable old age is the reward of a well- spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.”
– Anonymous

“Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.”
– Anonymous

“In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.”
– Anonymous

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
– Anonymous

“I’m not senile,” I snapped. “If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.”
– Anonymous

“The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.”
– Anonymous

“Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey‘s end.”
– Anonymous

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