They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
“Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as… — Maija Haavisto Copy Share Image
“Longevity has fucked up our pensions, our work–life balance, our health services, our housing, our happiness. It’s fucked up old age itself.” — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other… — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
“It is the juices of youth, the joy and gladness carried along through the busy years that make old age tolerable.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Funding care in the same way we fund pensions is the right approach for the Government to take, and the fairest way… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
Take benefit of five before five: Your youth before your old age, Your health before your sickness, Your wealth before your poverty,… — Prophet Muhammad (PBUH Copy Share Image
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“It was deep afternoon when shadows begin to grow, light becomes gold, and you realize that this particular day has reached its… — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image
“Minds dismembered by their sexual part’ Balthazar had said once ‘never find peace until old age and failing power as persuade them… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
“You just couldn't get hold of the things you had done and turn them right again. Such power might be given to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I know now one must plan one’s old age as surely as one plans any other stage of life. The tragedy of… — Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Copy Share Image
“You are surprised that the world is losing its grip, that the world is grown old? Think of a man: he is… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“You ask yourself: where are your dreams now? And you shake your head and say how swiftly the years fly by! And… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Fear of seeing a police car pull into the drive. Fear of falling asleep at night. Fear of not falling asleep. Fear… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
“A thoroughgoing paternalist who holds it cannot be dissuaded by being shown that he is making a mistake in logic. He is… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“It’s odd how one’s memories of youth turn out so bleak. Why does the business of growing up—one’s recollections of growth itself—have… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they… — Lorenzo Carcaterra Copy Share Image
Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that… — Simon Le Bon Copy Share Image
I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you… — Elton John Copy Share Image
We spend the first half of our lives trying to grow up and the other half trying to figure out how we… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, "You have always given me wings to fly, and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“When the years are dying in the arms of your life, the earth is in pain moving around the sun.” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Do you realize that in 40 years, there will be thousands of old women walking with tatoos? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
“I don't mind getting older; it's a privilege denied to so many! - Chris Geiger” — Chris Geiger Copy Share Image
Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
In youth, the absense of pleasure is pain, in old age, the absence of pain is pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
