#old age

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#bear #burden #faculties #failing #hard

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#because #long #old #old age #ready

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. ↗

— Herman Melville

#always #aught #death #less #life

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#become #begin #empty #filled #later

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. ↗

— Jean Paul

#cease #hopes #joys #makes #old

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit. ↗

— Thomas Willis

#born #broken #drunkards #effeminate #great

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? ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#age #attacking #besides #cruelty #ever

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. ↗

— Maggie Kuhn

#disappointments #disease #illnesses #kinds #old

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#able #age #ask #believe #converse

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#age #away #contrasted #death #destiny