550 Quotes About Old-age

Era un pintor tan viejo que se le habían quedado calvos los pinceles.(He was such an old painter that his brushes had gone bald.)

But when people age, they’re not looking for a cure as much as they are for encouragement to continue. Our work here is not about curing. It’s about the dignity of each person wheeled from breakfast back to their room.

Everybody had been in their twenties then; well, round about thirty. Now, from round about seventy, all those years of maturity or the prime of life or whatever you called it looked like an interval between two bouts of vomiting.

Старость – самое жестокое мщение, которое на нас обрушивает мстительный бог. Почему он заодно не старит наши души?(«Поющие в терновнике»)

This, I suppose, constitutes one of the greatest dangers of retiring, the sudden cutting off of motive power while the mechanism is still running at top speed. It would be so much better and easier, if it were possible, to cut off the motive power gradually; in other words to retire by slow and easy stages, instead of being in full production one day, crying "Come on! Come on!" and turning aimlessly around the next still saying "Come on!" but for no reason.

No old lady would be that conniving if she didn't have a little spunk left in her.

At my age, every day that I overcome simple inertia is a victory.

The old age comes very quickly; let us welcome it and find new joys and new pursuits not known in the youth!

Zo zal ik vertrekken', zegt Germaine. 'Ik ben het oude hart van een dorp waar niemand komt wonen. Ik zal stoppen met kloppen en het weinige wat ik heb gekend en nog niet is verdwenen, zal verdwijnen. Daar kan ik om wenen en vloeken zo veel als ik wil en dat zal er niets aan veranderen. Maar ik zal gelukkig zijn en weten dat ik heb gedaan wat ik kon', lacht ze met tranen in de ogen. Om zich een houding te geven schuifelt ze naar de wasbak.