(284 quotes found)
“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young”
Oscar Wilde
“I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.”
Voltaire
“Old age ain't no place for sissies.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.”
“Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.”
Maggie Kuhn
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”
Victor Hugo
“I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Dylan Thomas
“At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.”
Andre Gide
“Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to”
Joe Gores
