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Old Age Quotes by 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 a…
- Old age is life's parody.
- Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than…
- There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on…
More Old Age Quotes
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon
- To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. — Bernard Baruch
- 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
- Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. — Joseph Addison
- A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies… — Jim Bishop
- To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in… — Alan Bleasdale
- My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it… — Lionel Blue
- Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly… — Charlotte Bronte
- There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. — Bill Bryson
- We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation… — Pearl S. Buck