Old Age Quotes

When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well done.

You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.

You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

Jean-Louis had never had a day's illness in his life. He was tall and as gnarled as an oak. The sun had baked his skin until it had the colour and toughness and stillness of a tree. With advancing years, he had lost his tongue. He now never spoke, considering such an activity pointless.

There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters."
"You're not," Irian said. She thought him between thirty and forty[...]
"But I came far. Miles can be years.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

Hope is sweet.
Hope is illumining.
Hope is fulfilling.
Hope can be everlasting.
Therefore, do not give up hope,
Even in the sunset of your life.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep

Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a dark profound,
Our deafness each one laughs about.
Then reason's light with falling ray
Doth but a trembling flicker cast.
Honor to age, ye children pay!
Alas! my fifty years are past!

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

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

Age is only a state of mind.
You are as young as you think.