Old Quotes

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald.

~ Anthony Liccione

Silent our body is a sacred temple, A place to connect with other people. Can't we just stay any younger? Really, we might keep it stronger, Elated, rather than so tilted or feeble!!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

While you keep ageing, your experience compensates for your lost brain power.

~ Amit Kalantri

We do not stop dreaming and producing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop thinking and imaging. The spirit and mind grow stronger with time.

~ Ibrahim Emile

Save your mind from a premature death by always learning something new no matter your age! Think every day, but make sure it's not within the perimeter of the box! Think outside the box!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

What is the world’s problem? The world is still believing the old childish stories! That is the problem! Grow up, world, grow up! Be a bit serious!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world as you know it is in danger of collapsing

~ R. N. Prasher

Being yourself is an old myth, being fake in this world of cruelness is a new trick

~ Srishti

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

~ George Washington Carver

There is no future in the past. Any tour into the past is perhaps courage to live at the average level as you did; old and cold, blind and blunt! Come out! Out of the past and change position. You matter, your future matters

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.

~ Portia De Rossi

Sometimes, falling back on or using an old method or habit, is like sliding into a pair of worn running shoes and a corset. Doesn't make sense to others, but it's not for them. It's what keeps you together, what keeps you going.

~ Alyse M. Gardner

Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.

~ Eric Samuel Timm

You can be beautiful and young even as you get older. Keep an active life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A lot of who you were in middle age was determined before you had a chance to manipulate, control, or eve understand the things around you. It was no mystery, he thought, why some old people's minds returned to their youth; the wonder of those years, the discoveries, the first experience with the dirty secret of death, and the first stirrings of lust and love were indelible, drawn in luminous colors on clean canvas. Indeed, the first sex act was so mind-boggling that most people could still remember it clearly twenty, thirty, sixty years later.

~ Nelson Demille

You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.

~ Amit Kalantri

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

...but oh, it would just break your heart to see some of them waiting for their visitors. They get their hair all done up on Saturday, and on Sunday morning they get themselves all dressed and ready, and after all that, nobody comes to see them. I feel so bad, but what can you do? Having children is no guarantee that you'll get visitors . . . No, it isn't.

~ Fannie Flagg

When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun old habits or nay? That's the question.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

To have wisdom whilst young, to have strength whilst old, therein lies the secret to life on earth

~ Paddick Van Zyl

Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –

~ Simona Panova

I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw only a masterpiece of an original painting and someone threw a splash of red across it saying that their version is better, you would be offended too.

~ Criss Jami

You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.

~ C.s. Lewis

The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima—the “eternal present.

~ H.e. Davey

Many past mistakes paves the road to future discoveries.

~ Steven Magee

In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured. To be sure, people tend to see only the stubble fields of transitoriness but overlook and forget the full granaries of the past into which they have brought the harvest of their lives: the deeds done, the loves loved, and last but not least, the sufferings they have gone through with courage and dignity.From this one may see that there is no reason to pity the old people. Instead, young people should envy them. It is true that the old have no opportunities, no possibilities in the future. But they have more than that: Instead of possibilities in the future, they have realities in the past -the potentialities they have actualized, the meanings they have fulfilled, the values they have realized -and nothing and nobody can ever remove these assets from the past.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

The young man only looks to the future because he has lived little, the old man looks to the past because he has little left to live.

~ Fennel Hudson

...a great future behind him, already

~ Angela Carter

Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not tell me it is enough to speak the truth; that it is bravery enough. Every mountain leveled to the ground, every forest burned, every man, woman, and child who lost their shanties to arsonist fires were defended to the heavens—with words.

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk ...

~ Ann Brashares

We often take for granted those familiar faces and places, the repetitive nature of something once new, excitement wanes. To capture that early moment and hold onto it for all our days, true bliss. Looking at the old in in a different way, making it new once again.

~ Jonathan P. Lamas

It is always in season for old men to learn.

~ Aeschylus

Growing up doesn't mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she'll come to realize it.

~ Anthony Liccione

There werethings, he said mournfully, that perhaps could never be told, only hehad lived so much alone that sometimes he forgot--he forgot. The lighthad destroyed the assurance which had inspired him in the distantshadows.

~ Joseph Conrad