…one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of...

Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.

Outside, in the hallway, my mother stopped. She pressed both hands to her chest, closed her eyes, and said under her breath, ‘It’s so bitter.”What, Mama?”Old age.’ [p. 187]

At my age, if I make it up, it’s still an old saying.

Moderation is the key to old age and the doorway to boredom

I Didn’t Ask to Be a Senior Citizen (I Was Drafted)

Like I say, it just creeps up on you. One day you’re young and the next day your bosoms and your chin drops and you’re wearing a rubber girdle. But you don’t know you’re old.

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good...

Her face was plastered with layers of powder and looked like a face of stone. And with her noble profile, she seemed, on the triangular, moss-covered pedestal hidden by her cape, like a crumbling goddess...

The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

…Elizabeth’s doze had deepened into real sleep. Once she might have been young and beautiful. Once she might have been some young man’s dream baby. Now she was snoring with her mostly toothless mouth pointed...

If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: ‘Only if I did not know that I was doing...

His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or...

Old Age- You can tell when you’re getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)

At my age, every day that I overcome simple inertia is a victory.

It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.

Our lives can’t be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

Los viejos tienen la muerte, y los jóvenes el amor, y la muerte viene una sola vez y el amor muchas.

After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.

Death is coming—but hopefully not before old age, decrepitude, and senility.

I live 30 times faster and more intensely than most people, so every year is a whole generation for me. I’d like my combo meal with a side of long white beard, and I’d like...

When the years are dying in the arms of your life,the earth is in pain moving around the sun.

According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they’re less capable of indignation and better at being humiliated, for what is old age but one long string of indignities? What person of integrity would put...

In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it’s with someone you care for.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their...

Parker, I’m old,” She said matter-of-factly. “I get away with these things.” She continued to wave and smile wildly. “People treat me like an idiot so I’m allowed to act like one from time to...

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

I don’t want to ever see her again, because I want to always remember her as she was—young and beautiful. She won’t remember, because she was 88 when we met and suffering from dementia.

I wrapped my hands around the familiar cup and tried to draw strength from it. It was from Thea’s old Moss Rose set, remnant of careful scrimping and saving in her first year of marriage....

Alix bore the blow without flinching. A block of marble. Her gaze was piercing and blank, her nose nobly arched. But one cheek was flaking. A hint of strange green and pink vegetation was invading...

Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.

The colour grey is an unemotional colour, neutral, on the fence and neither here, nor there. Tis why old people’s hair turns grey . . . betwixt life and death.

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the...

I was quite a looker in my time,” she said. Was she reading his mind, or only being smart, to know she must be hideous?”Oh, had they invented time as long ago as that?

Treasure the wisdom of old age.Learn from elder people and be wise.

There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

Everything happens for a reason,” I would like to smack her.)

No old lady would be that conniving if she didn’t have a little spunk left in her.