Old age Quote by Herman Melville

“Age was no guide then, nor is it now. The old and the young defy their endings, while others go too soon. Neither is…

— Conn Iggulden

“Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He…

— Henning Mankell

“I suppose if one lives to be old, one's entire waking life will be spent turning on the spit of recollection over the fires…

— Philip Larkin

“He'd observed over the centuries that what made people old was when they could no longer keep up with change. It's the beginning of…

— Alma Katsu

“I suspect, even more importantly, the aged are hidden away so that we do not remember that one day we shall all walk that…

— J. Nozipo Maraire

“I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.”

— Sherwood Smith

“His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth.”

— James Joyce

“A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“...the very old men [...] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the…

— William Faulkner

“I’d rather be me now, than me any age prior. But there is this heaviness to aging. Who I am was built on the…

— Emily Austin