Old Age Quotes

Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you're twenty.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps his course truly.

That’s the purpose of old age. To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

Maybe senility’s a mercy shown to those who couldn’t face retrospection.