Quote by William Shakespeare

“The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we have to say: The oldest hath borne most;…

— Jean Hegland

“I suspect, even more importantly, the aged are hidden away so that we do not remember that one day we shall all walk that…

— J. Nozipo Maraire

“Of course I am thinking the Lord was once young and will never in fact be old. And who else could this be, who…

— Mary Oliver

“The gardener hath gathered up this autumn's leaves. Who shall see them again, or who wot of them? And who shall say what hath…

— Lord Dunsany

“Age was no guide then, nor is it now. The old and the young defy their endings, while others go too soon. Neither is…

— Conn Iggulden

“We never are too old for this, my dear, because it is a play we are playing all the time in one way or…

— Louisa May Alcott

“...we are never old to ourselves. That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not…

— Sebastian Barry

“...the old are destroying the young by them to die in distant fields, and in response the young are destroying themselves.”

— Salman Rushdie

“It seemed that in heaven people could be any age they liked, just so long as they had experienced that age on Earth.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“However old we become, there will always remain some things young within ourselves!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“We cannot be too young to die.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Surely the lives of the old are briefer than the young.”

— Robert Lowell