550 Quotes About Old-age

So long as our parents are alive, we are children. Then we become childish.

Once you grow as an adult, the age is just not a number, but a mind set.

She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her.

You can tell you're getting old when the heat blast from your birthday cake candles feels hotter than the surface of the sun.

I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and until I decide I'm too old I'll never be too fucking old.

The Sunday morning choir raised their voices to fever pitch with another gospel tune. Slurring voices filled with thick drawls of the local accent. The choir a mix of young girls her own age, alongside elderly women, with a few men thrown in for good measure. The old ladies wore tight gray buns and librarian glasses. Could they have ever been young? Could their husbands have?

I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in my eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm growing wise; I'm growing--yes,-- I'm growing old.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

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.