Quote by Sherwood Smith

“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

“The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father’s opinions and even into those of…

— John Updike

“Aging is a mortal term that my immortal spirit doesn't quite grasp.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Oh, to be old again,” said the young corpse.”

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“It may be that what we call modern is nothing, but what is not worthy of remaining to become old.”

— Dante Alighieri

"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“Now they were old. Old enough. A viable, die-able age.”

— Arundhati Roy

“From all old seamy throats of elders, musty books, I've salvaged not a word.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“But, indeed, dull, dreary adversity was now in store for him; and adversity, come it at eighteen or eighty, is the true old age…

— Herman Melville

“Blessed are you when you enjoyed the company of elderly people. They are always ready to share their rich experience and wisdom with young…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Old age generally involves pain and danger and inevitably ends in death. The acceptance of that takes courage. Courage deserves respect.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment - or…

— Susan Sontag