550 Quotes About Old-age

You tire my weary bones! Stand still and let me have you in my grasp, for Youth I have declared you mine!.

Old age robs you of every last illusion, even the belief in your own goodness.

Real vision dies only when life dies. Once we live, we hope, we yearn for and we aspire to have something!

If you misuse your youth, you get misery when you are old.

though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding

Some people do not really hate aging; they merely love the colour black.

When one nears the end, one likes to reminisce

I stared down at her, my gaze riveted. I couldn’t help myself. Silently I pressed her image into my mind, taking in every characteristic of my newfound hero. Her gnarled fingers like claws pressed the ground. Her white hair lifted in feathery wisps above tired and watery seafoam-green eyes. Her face reminded me of dried cracked earth, her story written in the deep wrinkled lines on her brown, suntanned skin. I had never seen anyone look frailer yet more fierce.

After having imposed itself on us like the egomaniac it is, clamouring about its own needs, foisting upon us its own sordid and perilous desires, the body's final trick is simply to absent itself. Just when you need it, just when you could use an arm or a leg, suddenly the body has other things to do. It falters, it buckles under you; it melts away as if made of snow, leaving nothing much. Two lumps of coal, an old hat, a grin made of pebbles. The bones dry sticks, easily broken.