550 Quotes About Old-age

Old age had distilled her down to her essence.

You cannot really stop aging. You can only delay or hide some of its effects.

Time is unkind to all of us, but it is particularly sadistic to women. A man’s physical prowess may dwindle with time, but he has compensations: stature, wealth, eminence. Men grow distinguished while women simply grow old.

Then I understood the thing I'd never grasped back in those days, when I was young, before I lived in history. When I was young, I'd wanted to be ephemeral, I'd wanted the moment, to live in just the glorious moment, the rush of blood, the applause. Pluck the day. Eat the peach. Tomorrow never comes. But, oh yes, tomorrow does come all right, and when it comes it lasts a bloody long time, I can tell you.

There's no use yapping over one's wasted youth.

Youth is pert and positive, Age modest and doubting: So Ears of Corn when young and light, stand bolt upright, but hang their Heads when weighty, full, and ripe.

When you're young the future is a mountain to climb. Once there though you realize all the beauty was in the climb itself.

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it.