550 Quotes About Old-age

Decluttering and downsizing before I am forced to do so also means my kids will have less work and stress when I reach old age or suffer an infirmity.

Old age is not the flue, Not something you get over

Days are slow, but years are racing fast.No matter how hard I try, my life is not going to last. My social circle is becoming thinner.Even after so many wins, why don’t I feel like a winner? When I look at myself in the mirror,I see an elderly staring at me with horror. So much remains untold, but my brain is losing its hold.Now that I have become so old, being alive is what I behold.

The regrets of old age are polarized: you wish you had not done certain things--behaved thus, responded like that--and you wish you had seized more of the day, been greedier, packed more in.

You plot, daily. Face down circumstance. Measure out your life with...not coffee spoons--pills. Line them up with breakfast, lunch, supper. Never mind mermaids, and lilacs in bloom, and all that stuff. He hadn't a clue.

When I was her age, thought Pauline, the options were confusing. They always are. Who'd be young? Everything wide open, which means that the not chosen is discarded. Junked.

Only when a person reaches old age can he stop caring about the opinions of his fellows, or of the public, or of the future.

Aging is dreaded the most by people whose income is entirely dependent on their looks.

I must be old, Pyotr thought to himself, if my son is being kind to me.