Quotes About Old age

For Montaigne, the death of youth, which so often takes place unnoticed is the harder death; what we habitually refer to as 'death' is no more than the death of old age...The leap from the attenuated survival of senescence into nonexistence is much easier than the sly transition from heedless youth crabbed and regretful age.

Our own homegrown evil, I'm sorry to say. And instead of rooting them out, the plan is to let them flourish—but within a walled garden from which they cannot escape and spread their evil seed." A girl could die of old age following a metaphor like this, Juliet thought. "Very nicely put, sir," she said.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

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.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Cold Mountain cold Ice freezes rock Mountains are green Snow is white Sun shines bright Every thing melt Every thing warm Warms old man

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

The investments of your youth, are drafts upon your old age. Invest sheer poetry in yourself.

Possessing wealth, he observes, won't enable us to live without sorrow and won't console us in our old age. And although wealth can procure for us physical luxuries and various pleasures of the senses, it can never bring us contentment or banish our grief.

You think it horrible that lust and rageShould dance attention upon my old age;They were not such a plague when I was young;What else have I to spur me into song?

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age

The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably. In Japan, she said, a person learned not to complain or be distracted by suffering. To persevere was always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy, and one's perspective. It was best to accept old age, death, injustice, hardship – all of these were part of living

We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.

Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.