550 Quotes About Old-age

And last, the rending pain of re-enactmentOf all that you have done, and been; the shameOf things ill done and done to others' harmWhich once you took for exercise of virtue.Then fools' approval stings, and honour stains.

I could certainly subscribe to the notion that life ends in old age, sickness, and death—but later, later.

Lauriano: – Posso chiederle una cosa? … Non è che per caso lei è un uomo felice?Nonnetto: – Non ho più le gambe di un ventenne, e allora la felicità riesce ad acchiapparmi spesso.

Don’t I remember those rustic evenings, now buried under a thick shawl of futile memories when you and I, walked and talked and melted into the lurid nightfall? I do.

This I wanted and nothing more. In my old agelike old Goethe to stand before the face of the earth,and recognize it and reconcile itwith my work built up, a forest citadelon a river of changeable lights and brief shadows.

To look at me now, you would think I'd never understood the secret. This music of old age...it isn't made for dancing. It's so...lonely. You're a burden to everyone.

The music of old age is difficult to hear when it's playing for someone you love.

Ah, how hard it is to manage the fateful transition to old age gracefully and calmly! Instead, convulsions, writhings, grimaces, strife with the younger generation, envy.

God preserve me from growing wise! Yes, I intend to mumble toothlessly to my deathbed bystanders: God preserve me from growing wise!