Old Age Quotes - Page 33

• The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

  Idries Shah

  Age, Laziness, Rehearsal

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.147, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.

  Robert Henri

  Space, Tears, Age

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.

  Golda Meir

  Airplane, Flying, Age

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• song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What is gone is gone... What is sea-born dies on land, Soft is trod upon. What is given burns the hand - What is gone is gone... Here is there, and high is low; All may be undone. What is true, no two men know - What is gone is gone... Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose - What is gone is gone.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Song, Men, Two

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• The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Children, Distance

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• They think I'm too old to cause trouble. Old age is a powerful disguise.

  Katherine Applegate

  Powerful, Thinking, Age

  "The One and Only Ivan".

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• Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving.

  Toni Morrison

  Age, Ruins, Rich

  Toni Morrison (1992). “Jazz”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

  Pablo Casals

  Love You, Thinking, Long

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• I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it

  Jim Morrison

  Sleep, Smell, Missing

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• It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.

  Booth Tarkington

  Mean, Age, Quality

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• Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

  Aristotle

  Anger, Age, Meanness

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• O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Wrinkles, Mirrors

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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• Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Grace, Lust

  1881 Leaves of Grass, 'Youth, Day, Old Age and Night', stanza 1.

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• We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Age, Faults

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• The worst old age is that of the mind.

  William Hazlitt

  Time, Mind, Age

  William Hazlitt (1934). “The Complete Works of William Hazlitt”

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• As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

  Seneca the Younger

  Love, Life, Time

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• Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Time, Age

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.256, Cambridge University Press

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• I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Fall, Yellow

  William Shakespeare “Macbeth”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

  George Burns

  Funny, Here I Am, Age

  "Just You and Me Kid", 1979.

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• In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.

  Penelope Lively

  Eye, Science, Age

  "A life in books: Penelope Lively". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Thinking, Ideas

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Man is not an aquatic animal, but from the time we stand in youthful wonder beside a Spring brook till we sit in old age and watch the endless roll of the sea, we feel a strong kinship with the waters of this world.

  Hal Borland

  Strong, Spring, Rain

  Hal Borland (1946). “An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons”, New York

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• The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

  Juvenal

  Life, Flower, Wine

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, IX, line 127, 1890.

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• The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Grief, Past

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• The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction; he has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system at some determinate period of time; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws now existing, and that it is not indicated by any thing which we perceive.

  John Playfair

  Nature, Hard Work, Science

  John Playfair, Adam Ferguson, Gordon Younger Craig (1997). “James Hutton & Joseph Black: Biographies”

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