Old Age Quotes - Page 13

• Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Eye, Mirrors, Flames

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.21, Knopf

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• We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Rivers, Dancing, Age

  Hester Lynch Piozzi (1861). “Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)”, p.367

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• The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Horse, Home, Soul

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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• What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?

  Helene Hanff

  Years, Age, Nerves

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• Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

  Joan Crawford

  Forever, Age, Lollipop

  Roy Newquist, Joan Crawford (1980). “Conversations with Joan Crawford”

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• The search of the Holy Grail or the voyage towards a new continent never enlisted so much energy and so much faith as does this pursuit of youth by old age. It is a race not of the fleet but of the most credulous.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  Race, Holy Grail, Age

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• Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and a great deal of pleasure there. There are friends, some of whom are sick and needful of you, as you will be of them someday. The world itself is very beautiful. It's a place where you have a lot to do. But you have to do it knowing that sometimes you will be afraid of this new country.

  Grace Paley

  Beautiful, Country, Knowing

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• However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.

  James Martineau

  Summer, Fall, Heart

  James Martineau (1858). “Endeavors after the Christian life: discourses”, p.227

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• Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Morning, Men, Age

  "Iraq-Bound Troops Confront Rumsfeld Over Lack of Armor" by Eric Schmitt, www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2004.

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• There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Age, Useless, Disease

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• Old age is an island surrounded by death.

  Juan Montalvo

  Islands, Age

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• Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Oil, People, Age

  Anzia Yezierska (1985). “Hungry hearts and other stories”, Persea Books

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• old folks is the nation.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Age, Folks, Nations

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• an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

  Fanny Burney

  Age, Devil, Old Woman

  Fanny Burney (1782). “Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress”, p.137

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• when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.

  Martha Albrand

  Age, Bores

  Martha Albrand (1950). “Wait for the Dawn”

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• I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Good Life, Blessing, Age

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 23, 2013.

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• My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Age, Littles, Young

  Gilbert Gottfried (2011). “Rubber Balls and Liquor”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Time rides with the old
  At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds
  See the near landscape fly and flow behind them,
  While the remoter fields and dim horizons
  Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them,
  So in old age things near us slip away,
  And distant things go with us.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Age, Horizon

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1525, Delphi Classics

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• To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Sleep, Preparation

  The Rambler no. 78 (15 Dec. 1750)

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• A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

  Alexander Pope

  Age, Cards, Youth

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To a Lady' (1735) l. 241

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• The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

  James Randi

  Age, Fifteen, Microwaves

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• I never had time to do anything for myself. I've always had to subordinate my energy and time to the demands of my husband and children at any given moment. And now old age has crept up on me and I have used up all my mental and physical strength on my family.

  Sophia Tolstaya

  Children, Husband, Sacrifice

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• I always loved being with older people. Now they're so difficult to find.

  Dagmar Godowsky

  People, Age, Difficult

  Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult

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• the impatience of the old is the worst impatience of all.

  L. T. Meade

  Age, Impatience, Worst

  L. T. Meade (2016). “The Honorable Miss: Children's Fiction”, p.201, VM eBooks

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• It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Age, Might

  Edward Gibbon (1825). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.186

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