People have told me ‘Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends…’.. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I’d need a Ouija board

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

In one thing you have not changed, dear friend,” said Aragorn: “you still speak in riddles.””What? In riddles?” said Gandalf. “No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose...

At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them.

When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in...

I blushed. You haven’t seen a bald man in his sixties blush? Oh, it happens, just as it does to a hairy, spotty fifteen-year-old. And because it’s rarer, it sends the blusher tumbling back to...

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She’d been lucky in so much, it had...

What’s remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.

One Must Always Remember That Birth, Old Age, Disease And Death Comes At Any Moment In Regardless Of Whom We Are Or What We Have In Forms Of Material Possession.

Two hot, close rooms thus became my world; and a crippled old woman, my mistress, my friend, my all. Her service was my duty – her pain, my suffering – her relief, my hope –...

How old are you?””Ten,” answered Tangle.”You don’t look like it,” said the lady.”How old are you, please?” returned Tangle.”Thousands of years old,” answered the lady.”You don’t look like it,” said Tangle.”Don’t I? I think I...

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

PartingOne is strong, a child now grownThe other weak, a parent aged-The strong once feebleThe weak once mighty-Time, the infinityhas marked them…

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.

Then I understood that a survivor has no right to bring a complaint. Whoever survives has won his case, he has no right and no cause to bring charges; he has emerged the stronger, the...

The older I get, the less I enjoy the presence of other people.

Few societies have come to grips with the new demography. We cling to the notion of retirement at sixty-five – a reasonable notion when those over sixty-five were a tiny percentage of the population but...

You may be temporarily young, but you’ll forever be childish.” Then I put gum in her hair.

If people lived to be a thousand years old, there’d be extreme inequality, based not on class like now, but on genetics. Think how far behind unmotivated and lazy people lag now after only 65...

This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else’s sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your...

Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles.

They say that as one grows older one mellows, become more tolerant. Perhaps. Sometimes I think it is more a stripping off, a peeling away of irrelevancies. But somehwere in youth, as childhood is left...

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

Be present and aware of the privilege of living.

I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory.

A tree with red leaves is like an old man with gray hair. Likewise, my love for you was blue, but now it’s orange, and that’s a compliment.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.

Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It’s comforting to know that I will never be as frail.

I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am...

Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don’t care. Old is when you don’t want...

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her.

I’m growing fonder of my staff; I’m growing dimmer in my eyes; I’m growing fainter in my laugh; I’m growing deeper in my sighs; I’m growing careless of my dress; I’m growing frugal of my...

As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that beach at Balbec, the dried-up seeds and sagging tubers that my girl-friends would become. But, now...

To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars.

There was already something dead about him. He didn’t rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when he walked. That stillness at the back of his neck. His prosperous-looking belly…sagged...

If you see an old man talking to himself, he might not be a fool or crazy. He might be sharing a conversation with the past, warmed by a memory he need not reveal.

The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, grey-haired, bent, he seemed to pass through life as in a dream.(“The Undying Thing”)

I don’t know what the old you was like, but the new you, the older you than the old you, is new and fresh.

No more than two to a tricycle, please. When I said family fun, I didn’t mean this is a place to start a family. (Children over 65 eat free.)

I don’t see why there should be a point where everyone decides you’re too old. I’m not too old, and until I decide I’m too old I’ll never be too fucking old.

I don’t feel old. I just feel like someone young who has something wrong with him.

Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?

… and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.

Great beauty and youth capture our attention, excite a deep pleasure; however, why shouldn’t our souls gaze at a countenance over which the years have passed? Isn’t there a story there, one unknown, full of...

Here’s what I think: when you’re born, you’re assigned a brain like you’re assigned a desk, a nice desk, with plenty of pigeonholes and drawers and secret compartments. At the start, it’s empty, and then...

When I turn thirty, in thirty days or so, I might be feeling old, so I’ll probably call my grandma up, because as old as I’ll feel, she’ll be feeling older. Twelve years older.

I can’t really tell how old I am, only that I’m too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in the past, and too old to wish the future will bring me all...

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.