Blood Quote by Richard Brautigan

Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

— Maggie Scarf

the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense…

— Maggie Scarf

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

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was…

— Ronald Blythe

We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy with their…

— Terri E Apter

Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...

— Amy Bloom

Physically, we get older and then we die. Yet spiritually, whether we go backward or forward is a matter not of the body but…

— Marianne Williamson

Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it…

— Andre Maurois

No age can have everthing and in material ways ours is more fortunate than any preceding one. Our ancestors appear to have mastered the…

— Flora Thompson

Its not the age that makes us old its the experience that we had, the lessons that we learned the struggles that we have…

— Missyrie

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional…

— Milan Kundera

Unfortunately, because aging is so common and natural, we tend to think of it as destiny or something we should accept.

— David Andrew Sinclair