O Quotes
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“Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.”
Source: The Tale of Genji
“Old age is a Gift”
Source: His Road Trip: An Aspiring Adventure Across America
“Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.”
“Old age is a humble victory in this killing universe.”
“Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.”
“Old age is a powerful disguise.”
“Old age is a shipwreck.”
Source: The complete war memoirs of Charles de Gaulle
“Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.”
“Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.”
“Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.”
“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”
“Old age is a woman's hell.”
“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”
“Old age is an excellent time for outrage.”
“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.”
“Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.”
“Old age is an island surrounded by death.”
“Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.”
“Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and a great deal of pleasure there. There are friends, some of whom are sick and needful of you, as you will be of them someday. The world itself is very beautiful. It's a place where you have a lot to do. But you have to do it knowing that sometimes you will be afraid of this new country.”
“Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense
“Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.”
“Old age is but a second childhood.”
“Old age is by nature rather talkative.”
Source: Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers
“Old age is especially cruel to vain men. Aging and its accompanying iniquities brings physical and intellectual decline and spiritual indisposition, depriving egotistical men of their superfluous pleasures.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.”
“Old age is fifteen years older than I am.”
“Old age is just a record of one's whole life.”
“Old age is life's parody.”
Source: La vieillesse
“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.”
“Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.”
“Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.”
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.”
“Old age is more about fading away than making new plans. You work within your limitations,without the luxury of second chances.”
Source: Small Things
“old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.”
“Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.”
“Old age is no place for sissies.”
“Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.”
“Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep in mind that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are not as well off.”
“Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired.
Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience”
Source: Discovering Yourself
“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”
“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.”
“Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.”
“Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.”
“Old age is not for sissies.”
“Old age is not just for grown up's”
Source: Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
“Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy.”
Source: The Farming of Bones
“Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.”
“Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is one of the laws of beauty. Under the conditions of our climate, shadow gives light its worth; sternness enhances mildness; solemnity, splendor. Varying proportions of size support and subserve one another.”