What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.
Scott Russell SandersTags: old-age
Then I remember that God is really, really old. So maybe God has God arthritis. And maybe that's why the world sucks. Maybe God's hands and fingers don't work as well as they used to.
Sherman AlexieTags: god old-age arthritis state-of-the-world
The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, grey-haired, bent, he seemed to pass through life as in a dream.
("The Undying Thing")
El que hoy es un impetuoso joven se quedaría horrorizado si contemplara
el retrato de lo que será en su vejez. Llevaos con vosotros todos los
impulsos humanos cuando salgáis de los fáciles años de la juventud
para entrar en la severa virilidad que todo lo endurece, lleváoslo, no los
abandonéis en el camino. ¡Después no os será posible recuperarlos! ¡La
vejez que os aguarda, horrible y temible, jamás devuelve nada!
Más compasiva que la vejez es la sepultura, en ella se escribirá: «Aquí han enterrado a un hombre»,
pero nada se puede leer en los insensibles y fríos rasgos de la inhumana vejez.
Old Age- You can tell when you're getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.
-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)
Tags: pain drugs old-age aging pain-pills
Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.
Graham GreeneTags: old-age aging fears worries
With great abilities come great responsibilities; great power comes with great assignments.
With great age comes great reasoning; great actions come great experience.
With great battles come great victories; great trees come with great tap roots.
However, if a little faith can move great mountains, what then will a great faith do? Mysterious things... I guess
Tags: age experience power faith victory action responsibility actions mystery old-age reasoning mountains tree abilities mysterious battles responsibilities ability root big assignment much great-power big-dreams capabilities assignments geat-actions great-battles great-experience great-faith great-gifts great-great-things-great-things great-tap-roots great-trees great-victory little-faith move-mountains tap-roots to-whom-much-is-given
Los viejos tienen la muerte, y los jóvenes el amor, y la muerte viene una sola vez y el amor muchas.
Yasunari KawabataTags: love death-and-dying old-age
Oh, once you’ve been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn’t want you back.” Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and adjusted her hat just so. “We—by whom I mean anyone over sixty—commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offence is being Everyman’s memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight.
David MitchellTags: life-experience old-age dialogue
How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted.
Ken FollettTags: life old-age lifes-work
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