550 Quotes About Old-age

I don’t feel old. I just feel like someone young who has something wrong with him.

Godfrey's wife Charmian sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all, since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology.

Her face was plastered with layers of powder and looked like a face of stone. And with her noble profile, she seemed, on the triangular, moss-covered pedestal hidden by her cape, like a crumbling goddess in a park.

Time is a double-edged sword: while it might heal all wounds; it also kills all the healed.

Then I remember that God is really, really old. So maybe God has God arthritis. And maybe that's why the world sucks. Maybe God's hands and fingers don't work as well as they used to.

How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted.

Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.

... and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.

He could hear his knees crack, and it made him feel old. You had to live so terribly long to actually be old, but Sebastien was starting to wonder if people began to feel that way quite a bit earlier, and spent their lives waiting for their bodies to match their souls.