550 Quotes About Old-age

Scenes unworthy of a modern country', wrote the journalist without realising that they were in fact the proof that France was becoming a modern country, that only an authentically modern country was capable of treating old people purely as rubbish.

The old scholar was watching the noisy young people around him and it suddenly occurred to him that he was the only one in the whole audience who had the privilege of freedom, for he was old. 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. He is alone with approaching death and death has no ears and does not need to be pleased. In the face of death a man can do and say what pleases his own self.

Cuando usamos el bolígrafo sobre el papel no solo encendemos la luz, también aumentamos la temperatura. Escribir a mano nos ayuda a pensar y sentir al mismo tiempo

Only children and fools expect wisdom from each and every old person.

So old were you, Grammpa— the last time I saw you, anaemic You looked like the monsoon in my town.

One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid down.

You think I got over you? I just got older.

Michael and Luke met for the first time after 106 years – although the pair lived just 20 miles away from each other.

Nadie es tan viejo como para pensar que no pueda vivir un año más. Cicerón (106-43 A.C.)