#old age

Not even old age knows how to love death. ↗

— Sophocles

#death #even #how #knows #love

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#days #decline #first #immortality #life

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. ↗

— Freya Stark

#am #faith #hands #hold #i

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#age #aim #apparent #between #childhood

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. ↗

— Philip Roth

#battle #massacre #old #old age

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#day #days #long #old #old age

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#farmer #kill #lightning #old #old age

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#all things #happen #man #most #old

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#children #deserve #earned #end #face

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#age #along #drag #error #into