Growing old Quote by Phyllis Zagano

“What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.”

— Scott Russell Sanders

“The fatigue I've gathered year after year and stored inside now heaves a muted cry of helplessness. Nothing but fatigue, rounding my shoulders, heavier…

— Emil Dorian

“All the same, they [young, twenty-somethings] can't help feeling that the aged and even the infirm have somehow elected that condition ... or have…

— John Barth

“My life had become weariness. It had wandered in a maze of unhappiness that led to renunciation and nothingness; it was bitter with the…

— Hermann Hesse

“Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not…

— William James

“It is the juices of youth, the joy and gladness carried along through the busy years that make old age tolerable.”

— Orison Swett Marden

“When we are young, we take a certain pleasure in our infirmities. They seem so new, so rich! With age, they no longer surprise…

— Emil Cioran

“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their…

— Anonymous

“The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience.”

— Joel T. McGrath

“It’s not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made worse by…

— Thomas H. Cook

“It is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures, this sombre sameness in middle-aged and elderly people, whose life has resulted in disappointment and discontent,…

— George Eliot

“there is no reason to pity old people. Instead, young people should envy them. It is true that the old have no opportunities, no…

— Viktor E. Frankl