Old Age Quotes - Page 9

• Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

  John Wagner

  Funny, Positive Thinking, Getting Older

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• Life can only be understood backwards.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Short Life, Moving Forward, Reflection

  "Fictional character: David Shrader". Dream for an Insomniac, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

  Criss Jami

  Ambition, New Beginnings, Eye

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.82, Criss Jami

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• I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.

  Will Rogers

  Getting Older, Hills, Over The Hill

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• My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

  Roy Acuff

  Health, Age, Aging

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• Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Age, Aging, Old People

  "A sad affair" by Alberto Manguel, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2005.

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• The idea is to die young as late as possible.

  Ashley Montagu

  Motivational, Death, Kids

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• A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

  Claude Pepper

  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

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• Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

  J. Norman Collie

  Grandmother, Men, Grandchildren

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• A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

  Dorothea Kent

  Funny, Eye, Men

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• Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

  Tryon Edwards

  Health, Men, Years

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.58, Ravenio Books

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• There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Power, Two, Age

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.26

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• The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

  Gene Simmons

  Rocks, Age, Natural

  "Gene Simmons: 'Rock Is Finally Dead'". Interview with Nick Simmons, www.esquire.com. September 4, 2014.

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• Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Civilization, Age, Useless

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.173, Penguin

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• We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

  William Hazlitt

  Attachment, Long, Age

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.7

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• 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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• 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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