Oldage Quotes | Quotes about Oldage

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Oldage Quote #1

[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. It is alien, and old people are a separate form of life. They have green skin, with two heads that sprout antennae. They can be pleasant, they can be annoying--in the supermarket, these old ladies won't get out of my way--but most important they are permanently other. When we turn eighty, we understand that we are extraterrestrial. If we forget for a moment that we are old, we are reminded when we try to stand up, or when we encounter someone young, who appears to observe green skin, extra heads, and protuberances.
Donald Hall

Oldage Quote #2

…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.
Louisa May Alcott
Oldage Quote #3

A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that something is fading away, she knows that the time is ripe for marriage. She should be careful of who she takes into her life because the union is gonna be everlasting.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Oldage Quote #4

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.
Gabriel García Márquez
Oldage Quote #5

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.
Brennan Manning
Oldage Quote #6

A raisin on the ground is full of hope that if it just keeps aging, it will turn into wine and get drunk on its wrinkly self.
Jarod Kintz
Oldage Quote #7

According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they’re less capable of indignation and better at being humiliated, for what is old age but one long string of indignities? What person of integrity would put up with it?
Margaret Atwood
Oldage Quote #8

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
Alain de Botton
Oldage Quote #9

Age is a seasoned trickster. To our parents, we will always be children. Within ourselves, the same yearnings of youth; the same aspirations of adolescence, will last a lifetime. Only to the young - blinded by our grey hair and slowing gait - do we appear old and increasingly beyond the pale.
Alex Morritt
Oldage Quote #10

Age is just a number,
One never gets old unless it is in their mind !!
Sham Hinduja
Oldage Quote #11

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Oldage Quote #12

Age is only a state of mind.
You are as young as you think.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Oldage Quote #13

Alix bore the blow without flinching. A block of marble. Her gaze was piercing and blank, her nose nobly arched. But one cheek was flaking. A hint of strange green and pink vegetation was invading her chin. Another winter perhaps would lay her low.
Marcel Proust
Oldage Quote #14

All of those who perceive new challenges as climbing a mountain should accept the fact that they aren't young anymore.
Eraldo Banovac
Oldage Quote #15

All this occupied his thoughts when he revisited the places of his war. Tramping over soil fed by the blood of men he had led and whose faces now stirred in his memory, it was his wife's response that came - as if in compensation for too little said before - when he wondered why his wandering had led him back to these old battlefields: in his sixty-ninth year he was establishing his survivor's status.
William Trevor
Oldage Quote #16

An old, tired man. That is what I am. What became of the old fire, drive, ambition? There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronising wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.
Glen Cook
Oldage Quote #17

And could a man sink to such triviality, such meanness, such nastiness? Could he change so much? And is it true to life? Yes, it is all true to life. All this can happen to a man. The ardent youth of today would start back in horror if you could show him his portrait in old age. As you pass from the soft years of youth into harsh, hardening manhood, be sure you take with you on the way all the humane emotions, do not leave them on the road: you will not pick them up again afterwards!
Nikolai Gogol
Oldage Quote #18

and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.
Philip Roth
Oldage Quote #19

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
Mark Doty
Oldage Quote #20

And they had no idea that they and many others were automatically pronounced deadly dull solely on that account. Only by the young of course, but then, they would have thought indulgently, young people knew nothing about life. Poor dears, they were always worrying about examinations, or their sex life, or buying some extraordinary clothes, or doing some extraordinary things to their hair to make them more noticeable.
Agatha Christie
Oldage Quote #21

And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.
Howard Thurman
Oldage Quote #22

Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Oldage Quote #23

Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Oldage Quote #24

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Oldage Quote #25

As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that beach at Balbec, the dried-up seeds and sagging tubers that my girl-friends would become. But, now that it was time for buds to blossom, what did that matter?
Marcel Proust
Oldage Quote #26

At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them.
Howard Jacobson
Oldage Quote #27

At my age, every day that I overcome simple inertia is a victory.
Michael LaRocca
Oldage Quote #28

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.
Robert Jordan
Oldage Quote #29

At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkles, there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom - the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February's snow.
Herman Melville
Oldage Quote #30

Be present and aware of the privilege of living.
Ann Marie Frohoff

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