Old Quotes

A clock that is moving through space at a very fast speed does not tick at the same rate as a slow-moving watch gently attached to your wrist as you stroll on a tropical beach. The idea of a universal time - a godlike clock that could somehow sit outside our universe and measure, in one go, the movement of everything in it, how its evolution unfolds, how old it is and all that - does not exist.

~ Christophe Galfard

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

~ John Piper

If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.

~ Criss Jami

I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's still there, just like always, ready to bear-hug you again, just like in the old days.

~ Craig Groeschel

O: Hey youngman, you should respect me!Y: Hey oldman, you should understand me!

~ Toba Beta

Who said death is dead? He's fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better off place.

~ Anthony Liccione

We were young. Everyone was young in those days. That’s the main complaint you hear from people who are getting old. You stop seeing young people. You begin to wonder if there are any left and whether there were only young people when you were young.

~ Lloyd Jones

If only I had met Molly sooner, when it was still possible to choose one road rather than another. Before that bitch Musyne and that little turd Lola crimped my enthusiasm. But it was too late to start being young again. I didn't believe in it anymore. We grow old so quickly and, what's more, irremediably. You can tell by the way you start loving your misery in spite of yourself. Nature is stronger than we are, no two ways about it. She tries us in one particular mold, and we're never able to throw it off. I had started out as the restless type. Little by little, without realizing it, you begin to take your role and fate seriously, and before you know it, it's too late to change. You're a hundred-percent restless, and it's set that way for good.

~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

we’re too old to be young.

~ Caroline Kepnes

To have the experience I did as a child, I would have to be a physically different being, one with whom I share nearly nothing. On a cellular level, aside from the neurons of my cerebral cortex and a few other stranglers in my heart and eyes, I am not him.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well done.

~ Amit Kalantri

A new you can still emerge from the old you.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

~ Vera Nazarian

It's clear that politeness to one's elders can't always be justified on the basis of the elder's superior wisdom. It's just that it's not attractive to see a young person answering an older person back.

~ Zoë Heller

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I'm having, too, are all first-time feelings. If it were something I'd experienced before, then I'd be able to understand it more clearly, but this is the first time, so I can't. For now all I can do is put off making any detailed judgments and accept things as they are. Just like I accept the sky, the clouds, and the river. And there's also something kind of comical about it all, something you don't want to discard completely.

~ Haruki Murakami

Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

People live up to 75, the other is just a gift.

~ Deyth Banger

For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time when we study the faces of 'old people' and sense that one day we will be just like them. And that is the moment when early childhood comes to an end.

~ Irène Némirovsky

Live a life that will make you look back in old age at your life and grin in satisfaction.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Old habits for old people, reinvent yourself while you still can!

~ T.f. Hodge

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

~ Munia Khan

The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty.

~ Hans Cloos

I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh at myself. I want to forget myself. I am so tired.

~ Kamand Kojouri

If I were offering hip replacement services I'd use Jarod Kintz as my spokesman. No one can possibly be better than him, to replace the missing spoke in your wheels.

~ Will Advise

This was his first trip on the Ossifar Distana, his first real splash in life. Look what it got him. Mister Smiff liked anonymity. He kept a low profile, often traveling under assumed names, claiming to be anything from a banker to a (very) successful life insurance salesman. He’d never broken the law, at least not irreparably. He was quite generous, well liked, sponsoring many charities anonymously – which is why it was so surprising to find him floating face down in the private spa in his apartment, murdered. He had been murdered, unless it was a freak shaving accident. Those old razors weren’t called cut-throats for nothing. Yikes.

~ Christina Engela

Hello,How are you?New in this world?How old are you??I'm sure that I know you....mm you are my father aren't you??You just revive, in a new body before few years now you are younger than me (FUCK YOU)...!

~ Deyth Banger

And to Tiger Lily he suddenly, inexplicably, seemed older than her, and wiser, and the thought hit her hard that it wasn't fair, because she'd suffered, and there he was, looking like he knew so much more than she ever would.

~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

Sometimes or most of the time, we need to remind ourselves that we're not a KID anymore.

~ B.c. Yaras

It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care.

~ Debasish Mridha

As long as you keep on walking on the old paths, you will never have footprints on the new paths!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the old ways of being and behaving, so that you were gradually a stranger to the place you lived in. The woman priest with jogging clothes and a BlackBerry gave Mary a glimpse of what life must have been like for her mother as she grew older.

~ John Lanchester

That’s quite the specific search...'Sadistic Old-Bag-Murdering Witches'—I can’t even begin to imagine what that involves.

~ Stacey T. Hunt

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

~ Gabriel García Márquez

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

~ Michael Pritchard

The good thing about being old is not being young.

~ Stephen Richards

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes — a fact which is recognized in the extra ration issued to old-age pensioners.

~ George Orwell

As I have aged, I’ve been lucky never to reach old. Old is always at least five or ten years beyond my current calendar stage.

~ Dan Groat