550 Quotes About Old-age

We are never old with the strength of the spirit, although the body may fail.

He listened unhappily until at length the blind man asked the thin air a question: 'I hope, perhaps, you may also remember me? A little? On occasion?' Then came a silence; a dry laugh; the sound of a man sitting down, heavily, all of a sudden.

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

Love, care and treasure the elderly people in the society.

Why seek some higher truth and service, when all the truth is in the fact that you're worth nothing and won't be worth anything anymore, that everything that you came into the world to do, you've done long ago, and that your only work now is to be a burden to others. Is that so? Is it?

She had to live a long and wretched life to admit to herself at its end that she hadn't understood anything about it.

The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.

The hands were ivory-coloured, the skin finely wrinkled everywhere, like the crust on a pool of wax, and under it appreared livid bruises, arthritic nodes, irregular tea-brown stains. ...The flesh under the horny nails was candlvwax-coloured, and bloodless.

At the age of eighty-three he had the self-awareness necessary to be patient with other people, but not always the facility to disguise the effort.