Life Old Age Quotes

When you are busy with living your life, age can never find you to make her mark. — Debasish Mridha

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age. — Jean Paul

Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it? — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. — Phyllis Diller

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted. — Ken Follett

Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Real vision dies only when life dies. Once we live, we hope, we yearn for and we aspire to have something! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever. — Chris Jirika

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things. — Karl Pilkington

A calling is that thing that you can't not do, an answer to the age-old question, "What should I do with my life? — Jeff Goins

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. — Madame De Stael

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. — Chinua Achebe

In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished. — A.J. Darkholme

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early. — Lyman Abbott

In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast. — Mark Edmundson

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age. — Alfred De Vigny

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night. — Amy Tan

You ought to love and care for your parents in their old age. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When you suspect old age is catching up with you, live faster! — Benny Bellamacina

There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I could go to a dozen houses, scrape away the dirt, and find his footprints, but my own prints evaporated before I ever looked back. — Brenda Sutton Rose

As a customer's man, his best brokerage work was securing the old age of his clients: time for them to do what they wished. — Edward Hoagland

The glory of the elderly is long life with grey hair. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness. — Sri Chinmoy

Life is all but a dream we will soon wake up to and be 7 years old again — Kira Jeffries

though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The kinds of jobs a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old can get are not worth doing. They pay shit and suck. — A.D. Aliwat

What scared him more than anything else was an old age spent simply waiting to die, a time when nothing of what had been his life was still possible. — Henning Mankell

Avoid the stage of old age sit in the audience, it's all the rage — Benny Bellamacina

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more. — Hedy Lamarr

Old age is the lubricant of belief. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death. — Julian Barnes

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end. — Simone De Beauvoir

No man loves life like him that's growing old. — Sophocles

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath. — Mark Doty

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

Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days ... — Kellie Elmore

Old age is the verdict of life. — Amelia Barr

Moderation is the key to old age and the doorway to boredom — Benny Bellamacina

One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid down. — Glen Cook

Gray hair is the glory of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When life has gone into overtime it's easy to take liberties, — Jonas Jonasson

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

While almost everything that surrounds us in life gets old and wears out, stories, like our very souls, don't age. — Camron Wright

The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it. — Charlie Munger

When old folks laugh,
they consider the promise
of dear painless death, and generously
forgive life for happening
to them. — Maya Angelou

When you are a child at home alone, you're afraid someone might come; when you are old and at home alone, you're afraid no one will come. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does. — Herbert M. Shelton

Though a new cloth makes you look new, when you see the old cloths, you remember the old life — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously. — Lord Byron

Old age begins when reflection overcomes planning. — L. Michael Hager

How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live! — Myrtle Reed

I've become very leery of jumping on bandwagons in my old age. — R.L. Mosz

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun. — Charles Caleb Colton

I'm just too busy living every day to really spend a lot of time thinking 'am I old?' I'm this age. I am in this moment and in this life. — Emmylou Harris

May you live to be as old as 120 years old. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. — Jean De La Bruyere

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you. — Marilyn Monroe

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. — Karl Lagerfeld

Live every single day doing something relevant; single days sum up to make great ages! — Israelmore Ayivor

I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home. — Dark Jar Tin Zoo

The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age. — Ben Kingsley

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age is not just for grown up's — Benny Bellamacina

Everyone desires long life, not one old age. — Jonathan Swift

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

So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins! — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains. — Robert Collyer

The genius of life is to take the spirit of childhood into old age. — Aldous Huxley

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishments makes up in quality for what it cannot add in quantity. — Dr. Sherwin Nuland

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. — Rick Bass

Old age and death are in the natural course of things. There is nothing a doctor can do about them. — Muso Soseki

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. — Francis Bacon

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. — Nina Bawden

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life. — Ray Bradbury

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together. — Haruki Murakami

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

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. — Nicholas Sparks

Don't celebrate how old you are, celebrate the years you survived. — Touaxia Vang

The law must be consonant with life. . . . Mankind is possessed of no greater urge than to try to understand the age-old question: "Who am I$ — Barbara Bisantz Raymond

Blessed are the elderly men and women. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. — W. Somerset Maugham

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again. — William Butler Yeats

Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised. — Julian Barnes

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you — Mark Twain

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone. — Andy Rooney

Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

The dream is possible at any age. Go live your dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure. — Sri Aurobindo

What if experience is disappointment, and a human's old age has no sense, and all what we acquire in our lifetime is a habit for disappointment? — Lara Biyuts

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (moby dick chap 29 p123) — Herman Melville

It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm. — Yehudi Menuhin