Old age Quote by Patrick O'Brian

“He was far from handsome certainly; and was drest in a snuff-coloured suit, of an uncouth make at the best, which, being shrunk with…

— Charles Dickens

“As I got older, I thought about aging more, as we all do. I came to think of old age as a fallibility akin…

— Lai Wen

“When he was young, that God out of the Orient, then was he harsh and revengeful, and built himself a hell for the delight…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He did not want to feel old. He did not want to feel the weight of his age hovering above him, mocking him out…

— William Sarabande

“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with the blind…

— Albert Camus

“His error lay in supposing that this age, more than any past or future one, is destined to see the tattered garments of Antiquity…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“All young people believed they were immortal, and he had personal experience of the methods they used to cull themselves - base-jumping, sky-diving, hard…

— Alison Fell

“To what nadir of paltriness , pettiness, and squalor a man can sink! How could he change so! But is this really true to…

— Nikolai Gogol

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

“...and it really was extremely sudden, the way it struck him that, good heavens, he understood nothing, nothing at all about anything, for Christ's…

— László Krasznahorkai

“He could be boastful in a way pleasantly at odds with his native fatalism, and his youthful stubbornness had a way of ameliorating into…

— Dan Lopez

“He was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had…

— Victor Hugo