At fifty, the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won’t be imprisoned anymore.
Old Quotes
If only, when one heard That Old Age was coming One could bolt the door, Answer “Not at home” And refuse to meet him!
I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it’s all a little lower.
The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family. My mother’s father declared himself an atheist in his communist youth, so we never belonged to a synagogue or had bat mitzvahs. But we wind up in Hebrew homes for the aged and in cemeteries with Hebrew letters over the gates. Thus does […]
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
All one’s life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to be noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about, […]
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Call him not old whose visionary brain Holds over the past its undivided reign. For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
After a man passes sixty, his mischief is mainly in his head.
I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old or being young, for that matter.
