#old age

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way. ↗

— David Niven

#always #creeping #day #felt #frankly

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

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#bottled #especially #old #old age #profound

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#always #am #fifteen #i #i am

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. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#better #better world #bringing #comfortable #decay

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#allowing #appetites #brings #death #deprives

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

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old. ↗

— Rosalyn S. Yalow

#excitement #learning #long #old #old age

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#arrived #batch #in the past #letters #like

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#both #forget #give #men #old