“I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.” WayHandsAgeWishMy OwnSadnessAtheismSickOld AgeWeariness Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]” IfsMenLongAgeWishOld AgeGood TimesMatureOld Man50th Birthday Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.” MenWayAgeYoungWishOld AgeYoung WomenElderlyWooingRejuvenation Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.” AgeYoungWishYouthOld Age Author:Bette Lord
“And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!” AgeFunWishOld AgeJolly Author:Walter Raleigh
“I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of self-preservation, wisely implanted in our natures, for obvious purposes, opposes that wish, and makes us endeavour to spin out our thread as long as we can, however decayed and rotten it may be.” MayLongEndsSelfAgeDeathPurposeWishPrinciplesObviousRationalOld AgeThreadPreservationWretchedInnateRottenEndeavourSelf PreservationRemnants Author:Lord Chesterfield
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.” IfsMenLongAgeTimeWishPhilosophicalAgingOld AgeGood TimesOld ManTime Management50th BirthdayFunny Old Age Birthday Author:Marcus Aurelius
“I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.” IfsThinkingPersonsI CanDoneAgeWishOld AgeSupposing Book:Works Source: Works