Old Age Quotes

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.

~ Michelle Franklin

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 up with it?

~ Margaret Atwood

He hated old women. They frightened him. There was a smell about them that gave him the willies. They were fierce and they had no price. They never gave a damn about making a scene. They got what they wanted. Louie's grandmother had been a tyrant. She had got whatever she wanted by being fierce.

~ John Steinbeck

One of the worst things I’ve learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change that you don’t like than there was when you were younger and you can’t do nothin’ about it.

~ Dan Groat

If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Isaac D'israeli

I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Núria Añó

Parent may hinder their children's marriage, but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.

~ Honoré De Balzac

A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that something is fading away, she knows that the time is ripe for marriage. She should be careful of who she takes into her life because the union is gonna be everlasting.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When I was a child, I thought like a child.When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is a blessed bliss to live to be old.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do all the work you can in your youthful days while you have the greatest strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Muse

You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.

~ Amit Kalantri

Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world’s perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph

~ Munia Khan

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 to dance anymore. Old is when you don't want to learn anything new except how to be old. Old is when people tell you that you are old-and you believe them.

~ Carew Papritz

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 nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no illusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.

~ Dean Koontz

Honor LostAmbulant sunshine piercedthe soot covered glass ~the feeble man wandered byin this ritual morning pass ...

~ Muse

Do all the work you while you still have strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Even when you don't see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye

~ Benny Bellamacina

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

~ George Burns

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.

~ Patricia Nell Warren

The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence it mounts into the middleregion, where it makes a long abode and produces, in my opinion, the sole true pleasures of human life; all other pleasures in comparison sleep; towards the end, like a vapor that still mounts upward, it arrives at the throat, where it makes its final residence, and concludes the progress.

~ Michel De Montaigne

You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.

~ Amit Kalantri

We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We grow old judging othersAnd ourselvesUntil life humbles usAnd makes scared children of usLonging to hold another’s handTo hear their kind words And witness their kind deeds done on our behalf.But like children,We sabotage everythingFor nothing satisfies usUntil life crumbles usAnd we are no more.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Parents raise children then grow old, and their children forget the things their old parents did for them, because their brains don’t remember before they grew selfish.There are buildings all over the world full of old people sitting around looking out of windows, full of hate for their selfish sons and daughters.And meanwhile, the selfish sons and daughters look out of their windows at their children playing and think how wonderful their unbreakable bond of love is between them and their children.

~ Craig Stone

Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

At seventy-one you can't expect to hear a story, any story, and take it as it is. At my age a story stirs up a vortex that sucks into its eye more stories, and spits out still more. I must remember what I must.

~ Miroslav Penkov

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

~ Michael Larocca

Love, care and treasure the elderly people in the society.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita