Old Age Quotes - Page 16

• Old age is an island surrounded by death.

  Juan Montalvo

  Islands, Age

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

  Tony Benn

  People, Appreciate, Age

  "Tony Benn: I'm not frightened by death - my wife taught me it's an adventure" by Alison Phillips, www.mirror.co.uk. August 3, 2013.

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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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• It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Age, World

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• To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Age, Youth, Fortune

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• One spares old people just as one spares children.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, People, Age

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• Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

  Billy Graham

  Years, Challenges, Age

  Billy Graham (2013). “Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a family to stand up to it; all the more obligation on those of us who have nothing left to lose. At any age it is better to be a dead lion than a living dog - though better still, of course, to be a living and victorious lion - but it is easier to run the risk of being killed (or fired) in action if before long you are going to be dead anyway. This freedom seems to me the chief consolation of old age.

  Elmer Davis

  Running, Dog, Men

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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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• One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Age, Needs

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• If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or sickness (from which none are exempt,) overtakes you, or for the distressed of your race, what a heaven of happiness you would have created on earth: ye would now be an ornament to your sex, and ages to come would call you blessed. But it is in vain to try - a priest-ridden female is lost to reason. Why? because she has surrendered her reason to the ... missionaries ... the orthodox; they are the grand deceivers.

  Anne Royall

  Sex, Blessed, Race

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• Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Long, Age, Desire

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• What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Ignorance, Passion

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

  Gertrude Stein

  Tired, Age, Way

  Gertrude Stein (1946). “Brewsie and Willie”

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