Old Quotes

As long as your life is a succession of love stories, you can never grow old.

~ James Marquess

it does not count a day if you do not learn something new from it ,its not nice to become old in years while your true age is only a few days

~ Alaa Zabaneh

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

~ Nancy E. Turner

Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went.

~ Philip K. Dick

You are only old once, but you can be immature forever.

~ Anonymous

I will age for you, if it pleases you. I will match you, wrinkle for wrinkle, grey hair for grey hair, crease for crease, wrinkle for wrinkle. You will be so beautiful when you are old.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

I don't ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don't have the power, alas.

~ Julian Barnes

He may be old now, but he is still a hero in their eyes

~ Loretta Livingstone

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.

~ Brennan Manning

He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly old and crippled. Turned out the rope didn't care if you noticed every daisy on the path to the gallows.

~ Chris Cleave

A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.

~ Miguel Syjuco

In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.

~ Meghna Pant

Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God.

~ Thomas S. Monson

The dragon spits fire, what extinguishes its tears. When we live in rancor, we are born to be old. (Le dragon crache du feu, - Ce qui éteint ses larmes. - Quand on vit de rancune, - On naît pour être vieux.)

~ Charles De Leusse

I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Oh, Gilbert, don't let's ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Why--? he jerked his thumb in the direction of the young, when they're so lovely--She too looked at the girl, who was fastening a flower that had come undone in the front of her frock. She smiled. She said nothing. Then half consciously she echoed his question without a meaning in her echo, Why?He was dashed for a moment. It seemed to him that she refused to help him. And he wanted her to help him. Why should she not take the weight off his shoulders and give him what he longed for --assurance, certainty? Because she too was deformed like the rest of them? He looked down at her hands. They were strong hands; fine hands; but if it were a question, he thought, watching the fingers curl slightly, of my children, of my possession, it would be one rip down the belly; or teeth in the soft fur of the throat. We cannot help each other, he thought, we are all deformed. Yet, disagreeable as it was to him to remove her from the eminence upon which he placed her, perhaps she was right, he thought, and we who make idols of other people, who endow this man, that woman, with power to lead us, only add to the deformity, and stoop ourselves.

~ Virginia Woolf

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.

~ Lemmy Kilmister

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.

~ John Scalzi

But now I remember, of course, I'm never going to be old.

~ Sara Baume

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.Let him sleep on.

~ Samuel Beckett

The young... are full of hope and discontent... And the old are those who were once discontented, but who have successfully smothered that flame and have found security and comfort in various ways.

~ Krishnamurti

Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.

~ Criss Jami

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.

~ Barack Obama

When you're young, you say what you feel.When you're adult, you speak what you think.When you grow old, you listen to what nature says.

~ Toba Beta

You see yourself as if old and wise.I see you really miss your childhood.

~ Toba Beta

You don’t understand!” she exclaimed bitterly.“That,” said his lordship, with a touch of acidity, “is a foolish accusation which lacks even the saving grace of originality! Every generation, my child, has said, or thought, that the preceding one was devoid of understanding or experience.

~ Georgette Heyer

I can't get it why did I name my book series, I'm talking about The Life Of One kid. I'm talking about the last word Kid?? Aren't your curious I'm with British Accent and putting Kid the American word for child the last? I'm also curious I still don't know, I really don't know why. Child sounds like a baby maybe that's all, kid sounds like a child in aobut 7-8 years old!

~ Deyth Banger

…love grown dutiful is love grown olda withered cupid faltering at the bow…

~ Lenore Kandel

You off then, Da?” she asked.“Aye. Too old for all this killing.” And to prove that, her father turned and brought his axe down on the head of a traitor that had gotten too close. Spun once more and cut off the legs of another.He faced them again. “Need to get back to my rocking chair and some hot tea.”“Clearly.

~ G.a. Aiken

Now, it’s time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that’s gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin’ a lie to his son from his death bed. What’s the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?

~ Dan Groat

When we are young, we want to be old and for things to change. When we are old, we want to be young and for things to go back to the way they were.

~ J.r. Rim

Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.

~ Robert Ferrigno

But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.

~ Amanda Stevens

Your grandfather was a hero in a war, girls. He wasn't a bad man or a weak man. Maybe he was too old to have a second family, a second wife and your mother and me, so many years after he lost his first. Maybe he was too old to fight anymore, and that's why he let me be taken away. I've thought about this for years and years. All I know is there are no heroes in this world. Not really. Just men and women who become old and tired and lose the strength to fight for what they love any longer.

~ Joseph Boyden

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

I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead.

~ Emilie Autumn

I don't know.  I don't really like old movies.  The acting is so, 'Hey buddy, ol' pal.  Let's go wear our hats and have a big misunderstanding

~ Stephanie Perkins

You will always be special to someone. Unless you grow so old, everyone you knew went ahead

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.Its clear tones resound in the placid silence of the winter day, and echo long into the silver-blue serenity of night.The bell can only be seen at the turning of the year, when the days wind down into nothing, and get ready to march out again.When you hear the bell, you feel a tug at your heart.It is your immortal inspiration.

~ Vera Nazarian