550 Quotes About Old-age

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

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.

Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fightsNext judging chaps' rightsThen sitting in slippers: then drooling.

Po nikim tak człowiek nie widzi dokładnie starości, jak po starzejących się ojcu, matce. To starość, która nas boli, z którą współcierpimy, na którą jesteśmy skazani, aby się w niej przeglądać i odnajdywać siebie. Może to dzięki ich starości przyzwyczajamy się i do własnej i z większym zrozumieniem ją znosimy.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to a hundred.

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.

After all, these days a man of sixty is practically a young man. (said in a 1947 SF story Centaurus II)

If we shift as we age toward appreciating everyday pleasures and relationships rather than toward achieving, having, and getting, and if we find this more fulfilling, then why do we take so long to do it? Why do we wait until we’re old? The common view was that these lessons are hard to learn. Living is a kind of skill. The calm and wisdom of old age are achieved over time.

Life teaches us two important things - we are careless when we are young and by the time we get old, it is too late to be careful!!