Old age Quote by Penelope Lively

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

— Lawrence Durrell

“We discard the elderly, but the elderly used to discard the elderly. Those old people we tease are just listening to our insults and…

— Karl Kristian Flores

“You're not one of those cranky old people who uses their age as an excuse to be a prick, are you?”

— Corrine Jackson

“Old age is not that bad when you consider the alternative.”

— Maurice Chevalier

“One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I am sure you have come across older people who behave like children. They want everything, whine for attention, bitch about the smallest things…

— Saidi Mdala

“people in this world can be irritating but as you get older you figure out that the arent so bad”

— Kaitlyn Loretta

“Old age isn’t a state of mind. It’s an existential situation.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Dodie Smith

“When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!”

— Stephen Richards

“I would rather be old than a grown-up. All grown-ups are angry, it's just children and old people who laugh.”

— Fredrik Backman

“Old Age Is Not for the Young.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin