What if experience is disappointment, and a human’s old age has no sense, and all what we acquire in our lifetime is a habit for disappointment?
Lara Biyuts…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.
Louisa May AlcottTags: old-age louisa-may-alcott jo-s-boys
You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago.
Timothy SchaffertTags: old-age
We could endlessly reminisce, live in the past to an unhealthy degree, then politely kill each other some winter night before bedtime, stirring poison into our cups of whiskey-spiked chamomile tea, wearing party hats. Then, nervous about our double homicide, we could lie in bed together, holding hands again, frightened and waiting, still wondering, after all these years, if we even believed in our own souls.
Timothy SchaffertTags: death-and-dying old-age sisters
For myself, hand on heart, those things never bothered me. It is one of the graces of married life that for some magical reason we always look the same to each other. Even our friends never seem to grow old. What a boon that is, and never suspected by me when I was young. But I suppose, otherwise, what would we do? There has never been a person in an old people’s home that hasn’t looked around dubiously at the other inhabitants. They are the old ones, they are the club that no one wants to join. But we are never old to ourselves. That is because at close of day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.
Sebastian BarryTags: old-age
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.
Golda MeirTags: humor old-age inevitability
...one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth.
Machado de AssisI wrapped my hands around the familiar cup and tried to draw strength from it. It was from Thea's old Moss Rose set, remnant of careful scrimping and saving in her first year of marriage. Yet the mellow old cup now brought me no comfort, only a feeling of helplessness, of time slipping away. Sunday-best dishes gone to everyday and now to mismatched pieces. Like Thea and me
Lorena McCourtneyTags: friendship death old-age
Una vida larga es como una enorme caverna: en ella todo hace eco.
Gabriel PayaresTags: old-age
In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.
Patricia Nell WarrenTags: love sex old-age long-term-relationships lovemaking
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