O Quotes
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“Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.”
“Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.”
Source: The Man Who Loved Children
“Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.”
“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“Old age is Satan’s last chance to blow us off course.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Old age is second childhood.”
“Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.”
Source: Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir
“Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy, available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences, his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences.”
“Old age is the harbor of all ills.”
“Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.”
“Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.”
“Old age is the new childhood.”
Source: The Nothing
“Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.”
“Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.”
“Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.”
“Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.”
Source: The life that now is, sermons
“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.”
“Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.”
“Old age is the verdict of life.”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart
“Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.”
Source: Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool
“Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.”
“Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.”
“Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.”
“Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.”
“Old age is women's hell.”
“Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it can also be a dance. It all depends how deeply ready you are to accept existence, whatsoever it brings.”
“Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.”
“Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.”
Source: Everyman
“Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.”
“Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.”
“Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.”
“Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the prudence of the winter time for a fat wisdom of, midsummer days. Manhood is bent to the passing cares of the passing moment, and holds so closely to his eyes the sheet of, "to-day," that it screens the "to-morrow" from his sight.”
“Old age makes caricatures of us all.”
Source: A Taste for Death
“Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.”
Source: Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well
“Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.”
“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.”
Source: Either/or
“Old age spiritualizes people naturally”
“Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.”
“Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.”
“Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect - anad that is completely all right. We are who we are - and so is everyone else.”
“Old age transfigures or fossilizes.”
“Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.”
Source: Force of circumstance
“Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.”
Source: Some of the
“old age' is always ten years more than we are.”
“Old Age, a second child, by nature curst
With more and greater evils than the first,
Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath
Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.”
“Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.”
“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”
“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant time. It is true that you are quietly shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front seat as spectator, and if you have really played your part you are more content to sit down and watch.”
“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.”