550 Quotes About Old-age

Books are the mind's ballast, for so many of us--the cargo that makes us what we are, a freight that is ephemeral and indelible, half-forgotten but leaving an imprint. They are nutrition, too. My old age fear is not being able to read--the worst deprivation. Or no longer having my books around me: the familiar, eclectic, explanatory assemblage that hitches me to the wide world, that has freed me from the prison of myself, that has helped me to think, and to write.

When I was a child, I thought like a child.When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life.

Sapeva leggere. Fu la scoperta più importante di tutta la sua vita. Sapeva leggere. Possedeva l’antidoto contro il terribile veleno della vecchiaia.

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.

Once we were young, now we are adult.

Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

Reading in old age for me is doing what it has always done--it frees me from the closet of my own mind.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.Archbishop Desmond Tutu