Old Age Quotes - Page 40

• I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.

  Woody Allen

  Nice, Fall, Thinking

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• Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

  Winifred Holtby

  Time, Age, Finals

  Winifred Holtby (2011). “South Riding”, p.164, Random House

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• it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why.

  Patti Davis

  Eye, Dying, Age

  Patti Davis (2011). “The Long Goodbye”, p.30, Knopf

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• In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.

  Esther Forbes

  Spring, Secret, Age

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• Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.

  Rita Hayworth

  Age, Looks, Vitamins

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• How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

  Myrtle Reed

  Age, Strange

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.30, Library of Alexandria

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• When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.

  Myrtle Reed

  Age, Needs, Hills

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

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• On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.

  Myrtle Reed

  Journey, Age, Looks

  Myrtle Reed (1905). “The Master's Violin”

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• [Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old.

  Helen Hooven Santmyer

  Time, Air, Age

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• For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.

  Sylvia Porter

  Dream, Retirement, Mean

  Sylvia Field Porter (1976). “Sylvia Porter's Money Book: How to Earn It, Spend It, Save It, Invest It, Borrow It, and Use it to Better Your Life”

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• I'm too young to be this old.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Age, Young

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• The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

  Christina Stead

  Religious, Son, Knowing

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.147, Head of Zeus

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• Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

  Christina Stead

  Decision, Age

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.147, Head of Zeus

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• Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

  Mary Collyer

  Maturity, Hair, Greed

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• the only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of things as they are now when we compare them to things as they used to be.

  Brad Warner

  Death, Time, Real

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.54, New World Library

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• Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Distance, Light, Purple

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.

  Suzanne Gordon

  School, Years, People

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• the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Children, People, Childhood

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

  Joy Fielding

  Home, Florida, Waiting Rooms

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• The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Lying, Age

  Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner

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• Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Lying, People, Age

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• When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Florida, Age, Moved

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• The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Roots, Attachment, Tree

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• When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Morning, Sleep, Men

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• Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.

  Lydia M. Child

  Heart, Glowing, Age

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 33, 1843.

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