550 Quotes About Old-age

Elizabeth's doze had deepened into real sleep. Once she might have been young and beautiful. Once she might have been some young man's dream baby. Now she was snoring with her mostly toothless mouth pointed at the ceiling. If there's a God, I think He needs to try a little harder.

Una vida larga es como una enorme caverna: en ella todo hace eco.

There was already something dead about him. He didn’t rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when he walked. That stillness at the back of his neck. His prosperous-looking belly…sagged like a load suspended from his loins.

Los viejos tienen la muerte, y los jóvenes el amor, y la muerte viene una sola vez y el amor muchas.

I was quite a looker in my time," she said. Was she reading his mind, or only being smart, to know she must be hideous?"Oh, had they invented time as long ago as that?

He had perhaps seen fifty springs and was therefore already very old, but his tireless body moved with an agility I myself often lacked.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.

In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.

What if experience is disappointment, and a human’s old age has no sense, and all what we acquire in our lifetime is a habit for disappointment?