Top 191 Old Age Quotes

It’s one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you’re not in good shape and can’t do anything about it.

Economically anxious, many parents see their children’s accomplishments as a sort of insurance against the financial challenges of old age; high-achieving kids, this logic goes, will become high-earning adults and therefore be better able to help Mom and Dad pay for the assisted-living facility in a few decades.

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age – which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

I softened in my old age.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

My problem isn’t death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.

What a lot of the public doesn’t know, and I’m sure my fans aren’t aware of, orcas have died living at Sea World, and that has not been from old age.

Most of those whom we honor on Memorial Day died young. They never had the chance to raise a family, build a career, attend the weddings of their children, or be honored in old age.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

I was hoping I could die of old age in the military, but they wouldnt let me.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

One of the things you learn in football is that you’re only as good as your last outing. I don’t like to reflect on what we’ve done in the past. I’m not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I’d disappoint you. When it’s time, I’ll talk about the good old days. But it’s a sign of old age, reveling in the past.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain’s cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening – not to say healthy – old age.

In my old age, I’ll be in L.A.

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Somehow, when you think about yourself in old age, you think you’re going to be this completely different person that you don’t even recognize – because you can’t imagine it, you know?

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I’d rather have fun.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Most ‘Monty Python’ fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you’ve forgotten what happened.

You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you’re looking at a very long and lonely old age.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Old age is a wonderful time of life. At least, that’s what everyone tells you. But let me tell you: it is not true. What’s true is that your hips, knees and ankles gradually give up on you – everything is quite dreadful, really. And it was a terrible thing to have told us because we believed it.

The three touchstones that woke Buddha up – sickness, old age, and death – are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.

I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It’s because I’m freelance, and I’ve never had a proper job. I don’t have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

Over time, Europeans have come to rely on governments to protect them from the rougher facets of private enterprise and to look after them in old age.

Iggy Pop is a pure Michigan product – gritty, smart, but not afraid of looking stupid or foolish. His father was once a high school English teacher. I love Iggy as a physical entity, sinewy, twisty – even in old age – an embodiment of rock and roll history.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?

As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

Either God is alive, in which case he’ll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they’re jokes that don’t make people laugh.

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

What works for one writer may not work for another. There are as many methods as there are writers. Were you to live to a grand old age, you would still never have enough time to try them all.