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Old Age Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
- Bane
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- Nov 07, 2020
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my parents developed dementia in their old age. Everyone I know whose parents had dementia feel that they didn't deal with it very well.
- Appreciate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
How young can you die of old age?
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in Tolstoy or even crossword puzzles is unlikely to appear, no matter the urging by well-intentioned social workers or people like me who write books about it.
- Clearest
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are times when the presence of more choices can make us choose things that are not good for us. For me the clearest example is that the more retirement fund options a person has, the less likely they are to save for their old age.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
- Crafting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want a comfortable old age and to be looked after - I have arthritis - and money is a factor.
- As Much Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
- Eternal Youth
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- Nov 07, 2020
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
- Attainable
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- Nov 07, 2020
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
- At Least One
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you're looking at a very long and lonely old age.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes till they begin to drop off. They are healthy and hardy; even the women can carry weights of sixty pounds over the passes. They attain extreme old age; their voices are harsh and loud, and their laughter is noisy and hearty.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
- Encounters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
- Fleeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.
- Elegance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
- Aroused
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his own case the phenomena of precocious old age should turn to study the causes of it.
- Detailed
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- Nov 07, 2020