Old Age Quotes - Page 27

• Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Men, Evil, Sorrow

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• What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Long, Funeral, Age

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• He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

  Pierre Corneille

  Fate, Soul, Age

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• It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Accomplishment, Age, Maintaining

  Yehudi Menuhin (1978). “Unfinished journey”

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• For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.

  Bhartrhari

  Boys, Men, Wrinkles

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• I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

  Armand Hammer

  Thinking, Effort, Age

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• When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Miracle, Age

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• Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Baby, Men, People

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• Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Wisdom, Practice, Age

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• After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.

  Julio Cortazar

  Age, Littles, Dies

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• Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.

  Li Shangyin

  Beautiful, Feelings, Age

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• Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.

  Lord Byron

  Hands, Play, Age

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• I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

  Maeve Binchy

  Family And Friends, Age, Lucky

  Maeve Binchy (2013). “Maeve's Times”, p.323, Hachette UK

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• Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

  Aeschylus

  Dream, Children, Men

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.23, University of Chicago Press

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• I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

  Jenny Eclair

  Jobs, Cat, Vision

  "This much I know" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.

  Joyce Cary

  Memories, Age, Shapes

  Joyce Cary (1958). “First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth”

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• Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.

  Joyce Cary

  Morning, Men, People

  joyce cary (1944). “the hore's mouth”

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• Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

  John Hay

  Men, Thinking, Age

  John Hay (1916). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Hay: Including Many Poems Now First Collected”

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• Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

  David Niven

  Age, One Day, Want

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• Aging happy and well, instead of sad and sick, is at least under some personal control. We have considerable control over our weight, our exercise, our education, and our abuse of cigarettes and alcohol. With hard work and/or therapy, our relationships with our spouses and our coping styles can be changed for the better. A successful old age may lie not so much in our stars and genes as in ourselves.

  George Vaillant

  Stars, Lying, Hard Work

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• My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

  Rick Bass

  June, July, August

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• Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was 13 years old and lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania. At the time of his death, his license was current and he had had all of his shots. He is survived by two adults, three children, a cat named Daisy who drove him nuts, and his lifelong companion, Pudgy, whose spaying he always regretted, as well as a host of fleas who have gone elsewhere, probably to Pudgy. He will be missed by all, except Daisy. He never bit anyone, which is more than you can say for most of us.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dog, Children, Cancer

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• And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. This is my conviction at the age of forty. I am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. Living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Character, Men

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• Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

  Anna Held

  Mistake, Age, Rewards

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• Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Past, Wind, Names

  Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.78, A&C Black

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