The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“When you get rid of all the older people, you get rid of all the wisdom.” — Terraine Francois Copy Share Image
“As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun. — Heather Graham Copy Share Image
“Every woman should have a youth she's content to leave behind and a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to telling… — Pamela Redmond Satran Copy Share Image
“New experiences, what my Grams says, keeps us from going bat-shit in old age.” — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Too many men have died in the name of old age. I know, because my grandmother was one of them.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Fear is easily experienced, but fun is hard to come by in old age, so I already felt a sense of gratitude… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“We both young what made you grow younger." "The music?" He nodded and whispered. "You don't have to go back to being… — David Agranoff Copy Share Image
“To the end of her life, to the last dream of old age, Syeira would always remember these two wild smells-the Arva… — Jamieson Findlay Copy Share Image
Many ask me whether pranayama ... postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
You are never too old and it is never too late to start a new life. You can decide to transform your… — Benjamin Valadez Copy Share Image
“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game is finished, that… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“There is so little joy in any life, I will take this time with you until I must go." He smoothed a… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Here, on a human face, appeared all the ruin following upon hopeless labour. Laveuve's unkempt beard straggled over his features, suggesting an… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“But depression wasn't the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
