“The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which… — Cephalus Copy Share Image
Man is not an aquatic animal, but from the time we stand in youthful wonder beside a Spring brook till we sit… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
STAGES OF LIFE: TEENS: you have all the time and energy but no money. WORKERS: you have the money and energy but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But no matter how they make you feel, you should always watch elders carefully. They were you and you will be them.… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's… — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
“Her grandmother had a life, a life Claire hadn't known about or even imagined. She had tried so hard to know everything… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“The coward believes he will live forever If he holds back in the battle, But in old age he shall have no… — Hávamál - The of the high one Copy Share Image
[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope. — Anonymous 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
You are getting old when you enjoy remembering things more than doing them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“A little later Anastasia was sitting before her bedroom fire writing. It has a magic of its own—the bedroom fire. Not such… — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
“The certitude that everything has been written negates us or turns us into phantoms. I know of districts in which the young… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
“I am leery of suggesting the idea that endings are controllable. No one ever really has control. Physics and biology and accident… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
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