Old age is life's parody.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go…

— Simone de Beauvoir

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“In my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children, and that…

— Eowyn Ivey

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes…

— Brandon Mull

Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age (Solomon 4:8).

— Bible

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

— John Quincy Adams

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

— Euripides

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Amit Kalantri

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.

— Robert Collyer

It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

— Barbara Mertz

Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it.

— Anonymous

He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.

— Publilius Syrus