“Few societies have come to grips with the new demography. We cling to the notion of retirement at sixty-five—a reasonable notion when… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“I have lost years that I will never get back. Only now am I just beginning to live, on the verge of… — Malika Oufkir Copy Share Image
True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
“Suppose..." And for the first time he linked his hand with hers. "He runs and wins and lives to a ripe old… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“We want the ability to re-engineer our bodies and minds in order, above all, to escape old age, death and misery, but… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to be moved by the verve, courage and elan with Churchill attacked his last and ultimately invincible enemy,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“Bleak pushed the chair around a corner so the light of the dying sun stained their faces a healthy red, and added,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Gerontologists studying the aging process find increasing evidence that most of us will age with a fair degree of success. There’s far… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Regina Schrambling is both hero and villain. My favorite villain, actually. The former New York Times and LA Times food writer and… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Are your friends as good as MY friends? I can discern the nod of of assent but doubt it. My own friends… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably. In Japan, she said, a person learned… — david guterson Copy Share Image
In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months… — Jay Smith Copy Share Image
“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“she bore so many of the signs and disfigurings of extreme old age that she was losing her resemblance to other human… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Parents raise children then grow old, and their children forget the things their old parents did for them, because their brains don’t… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
“I feel to that the gap between my new life in New York and the situation at home in Africa is stretching… — Peter Godwin Copy Share Image
A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Hell, you ought to go see a doctor, Dad," I told him. "You probably just need some kind of pep-up medicine. Why… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“With great abilities come great responsibilities; great power comes with great assignments. With great age comes great reasoning; great actions come great… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“I think in my old age I've come to realize just how precious everything is and I try to value the many… — Phil Hartman Copy Share Image
“Fear resides in all things, and the heart of fear is the unexpected. Do not frighten your opponent with what is right… — Shinmen Musashi Copy Share Image
“She managed a bored sigh. “I suppose we could do one picture, but a group shot won’t work. Nyx, how about one… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“I came to feel a tenderness for them all. This was something new to me. It gave me a curious pleasure to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Time passes. Big men dwindle, small men grow. This man shrinks into old age, those men’s reach grows longer. They can stretch… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“It makes absolutely no difference in the scheme of things whether all but a handful of people live or die. No more… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
An obsession that I've developed in my old age, is great architecture. I bought a house in New Orleans and I became… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Birthdays are a time when one stock takes, which means, I suppose, a good spineless mope: I scan my horizon and can… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“We want the ability to re-engineer our bodies and minds in order, above all, to escape old age, death and misery, but… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I have no other passion to keep me in breath. What avarice, ambition, quarrels, law suits do for others who, like me,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Live for the gifts the fragrant-breasted Muses send, for the clear, the singing, lyre, my children. Old age freezes my body, once… — Sappho Copy Share Image
“In Erikson’s words: “A meaningful old age…serves the need for that integrated heritage which gives indispensable perspective on the life cycle. Strength… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction.… — Peter David Copy Share Image
The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“When, on a sea voyage, the ship is brought to anchor, you go out to fetch water and gather a few roots… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Oh, once you’ve been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn’t want you back.” Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“God help me, how Tolstoy sweats over drying up people's sources of life, of wild and joyful life, drying them up and… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
