Old Age Quotes And Sayings

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“It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they’ve no way o’ working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.”
– Anonymous

“Old men‘s eyes are like old men’s memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.”
– Anonymous

“Una vida larga es como una enorme caverna: en ella todo hace eco.”
– Anonymous

“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
– Anonymous

“The truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”
– Anonymous

“I can’t really tell how old I am, only that I’m too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in the past, and too old to wish the future will bring me all the answers.”
– Anonymous

“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”
– Anonymous

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

“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
– Anonymous

“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.”
– Anonymous

“I Didn’t Ask to Be a Senior Citizen (I Was Drafted)”
– Anonymous

“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ”
– Anonymous

“There’s one advantage to being 102. There’s no peer pressure.”
– Anonymous

“Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.”
– Anonymous

“One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.”
– Anonymous

“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”
– Anonymous

“As we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping out minds active and open.”
– Anonymous

“Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.”
– Anonymous

“Before forty we live forwards; after forty we live backwards.”
– Anonymous

“Old age is a shipwreck.”
– Anonymous

“The real affliction of old age is remorse.”
– Anonymous

“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
– Anonymous

“A man doesn’t grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.”
– Anonymous

“All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.”
– Anonymous

“Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but … none was as specific as old age.”
– Anonymous

“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”
– Anonymous

“It’s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game.”
– Anonymous

“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.”
– Anonymous

“The Disappointment of Manhood succeeds to the delusion of Youth: let us hope that the heritage of Old Age is not Despair.”
– Anonymous

“No lie ever reaches old age.”
– Anonymous

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