For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man’s house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. […]
Old Quotes
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow more loyal to situations and to types.
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.
As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.
Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.
The whole business of marshaling one’s energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
In wine and man this difference appears: The old man bores you, but the wine cheers. Men do not, like your wine, improve by age; The more their years, the less their ways engage.
