Old Age Quotes - Page 10

• For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

  May Sarton

  Self Confidence, Age, Weakness

  May Sarton (2014). “Kinds of Love: A Novel”, p.181, Open Road Media

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• Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

  May Sarton

  Frustration, Age, Growing

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

  May Sarton

  Age, Assuming, Easy

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• ...there is no old age of the soul.

  Saul Bellow

  Soul, Age, Aging

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

  Ronald Blythe

  Past, Age, Ordinary

  Ronald Blythe (1979). “The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age”, p.17, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Later In Life, Hands

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.382, Open Road Media

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• I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

  Robert Breault

  Past, Age, Requirements

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• No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.

  Seneca the Younger

  Age, One More Day, Decency

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• Death laughs when old women frolic.

  Publilius Syrus

  Laughing, Age, Old Woman

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• Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Long, Age

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

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• Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

  Thomas Browne

  Age, Habit, Rectify

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4”, p.61

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• A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fire, Age, Youth

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.57

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• Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Moving, Light

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.99, Penguin

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• Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

  Andre Gide

  Giving Up, Age, Imagine

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• A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.
  [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hands, Sensual, Age

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• Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Learning, Men, Age

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• Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Youth, Companion

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• Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age

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• That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Silly, Men, Age

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• While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.
  [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores.
  Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

  Ovid

  Feet, Years, Age

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• That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

  Ovid

  Wrinkles, Years, Age

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• forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

  Peg Bracken

  Names, Giving, Age

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• They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Long, Tears, Age

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.293, U of Nebraska Press

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• Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

  George Santayana

  Writing, Adventure, Young Friends

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• Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Age, Glad, Dies

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