Old Age Quotes
Comparing the pleasures of later life with those of youth.
Old age is described here as ready to take on long, slow tasks that youth would avoid out of impatience, and its pleasures are treated as real even though they differ sharply from youth's. This page gathers quotes comparing the two stages. Related reading continues on Age quotes.
To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously...
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
Age Quotes
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
Childhood Quotes
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Both my parents developed dementia in their old age. Everyone I know whose parents had dementia feel that they didn't deal with it very well.
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
Die Quotes
I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.
I Am Quotes
Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in Tolstoy or even crossword puzzles is unlikely to appear, no matter the urging by well-intentioned social...
