Death Quote by Edna Ferber

What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!

— Arthur Rimbaud

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

— Louisa May Alcott

“I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old…

— C.S. Lewis

Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

— Dodie Smith

Death laughs when old women frolic.

— Publilius Syrus

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

— Vincent Massey

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

— Thomas Nelson Page

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master,…

— Plato

Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual coming of…

— Virginia Woolf

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

— Tanith Lee

“It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment - or…

— Susan Sontag

I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.

— Joyce Carol Oates