Age Quote by Martha Gellhorn

When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without…

— Julian Barnes

To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way.…

— Sam Keen

The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical…

— Colleen McCullough

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age…

— John Mortimer

They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire…

— Ellen Hopkins

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

— Margaret Mead

I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the…

— Alix Kates Shulman

People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel…

— Paul Tournier

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

— Diane de Poitiers

There has been too much silliness and cliche when looking at older people: I think that hides a fear of death that we have…

— Sebastian Lelio

One of the biggest reasons old people are so bitter is after all those years they finally realize what life is really about, but…

— Billy Vincent