550 Quotes About Old-age

That’s one of the problems—and joys—of old age: every time you read a book it’s the first.

The joy of being observed ran so deep that Breuer believed the real pain of old age, bereavement, outliving one's friends, was the absence of scrutiny - the horror of living an unobserved life.

May you live to be as old as 120 years old.

Hope is sweet.Hope is illumining.Hope is fulfilling.Hope can be everlasting.Therefore, do not give up hope,Even in the sunset of your life.

There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don't care. Old is when you don't want to dance anymore. Old is when you don't want to learn anything new except how to be old. Old is when people tell you that you are old-and you believe them.

Den ville i det minste i drømme varme opp det blod som naturen har latt i stikken, den ville løftet haken og drøyet både musklene, energien og livsgleden for denne stakkaren som i full fart iler mot sin undergang.

And in any case, I am someone else now. This seems to contradict earlier assertions that you are in old age the person you always were. What I mean is that old age has different needs, different satisfactions, a different outlook. I remember my young self, and I am not essentially changed, but I perform otherwise today.There are things I no longer want, things I no longer do, things that are now important.