Old Age Quotes - Page 12

• The happy problem of our time - longer life.

  Lillian Hellman

  Age, Problem, Longer Life

  Lillian Hellman (1971). “The collected plays”, Little Brown and Company

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• Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

  Diane de Poitiers

  Age, Hideous

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• the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

  Madame de Stael

  Age, Lasts, Steps

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• Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

  Dodie Smith

  Elderly, Expression, Age

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• Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Age, Quality

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Age, Honored

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.76

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• In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Thinking, Age

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.123

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• All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sleep, Age, Genius

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ann Dexter Gordon (2006). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: When clowns make laws for queens, 1880-1887”, p.114, Rutgers University Press

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• Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

  Betty Friedan

  Home, Nursing, Acceptance

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Thinking, Age, Growing

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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• 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.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Long, Age, Pressure

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• Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.

  Barbara Walters

  Party, People, House

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• I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.

  Freya Stark

  Thinking, Numbers, Preparation

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• Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

  Jane Addams

  Serenity, Age, Dignity

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Age, My Time, Lament

  Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• nobody ever intends to be old.

  Marie Corelli

  Age

  Marie Corelli (19??). “Jane: A Social Incident”, p.27, Health Research Books

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• About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!

  Stephen Leacock

  Age, Aging, Good Things

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• nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Age, Injustice, So Sad

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• Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost dreadful, so absorbing, so stirring down to the deeps. For the tiny creature is so old and wise and sweet, and so fascinating in his sturdy common sense and clear intelligence; and his affection for me is a wonderful, exquisite thing, the sweetest flower that has bloomed for me in all my life through.

  Celia Thaxter

  Wise, Sweet, Flower

  Celia Thaxter (1896). “Letters of Celia Thaxter”

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• [On old age:] You wake up one morning and you got it.

  Moms Mabley

  Morning, Age, Wake Up

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• the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense that they're arriving there. Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

  Maggie Scarf

  Country, Thinking, Land

  Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books

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• ... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

  Miles Franklin

  Mother, Age, Problem

  Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.20, ETT Imprint

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• Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.

  Nicole Hollander

  America, Somewhere Else, Age

  Nicole Hollander (2007). “Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial”

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• One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

  Betty White

  Years, Age, Growing

  Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.143, Penguin

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• Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.

  Doris Grumbach

  Age, Dieting

  Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.9, Open Road Media

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