#old age

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#big #chief #destination #difference #early

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#comes #gradually #old #old age #suddenly

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet! ↗

— Tina Turner

#become #give #i #never #never give in

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. ↗

— Ausonius

#brings #count #happiness #know #let us

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#cheerful #childhood #itself #kindly #lovely

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#being #insult #like #old #old age

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#happiest #life #old #old age #our

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#age #fear #go #greatest #greatest problem

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#great #how #ills #incessant #old

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age. ↗

— Huey Lewis

#dance #i #learn #old #old age