There was already something dead about him. He didn’t rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when he walked. That stillness at the back of his neck. His prosperous-looking belly…sagged like a load suspended from his loins.
Zora Neale HurstonTags: old-age
Parker, I'm old," She said matter-of-factly. "I get away with these things." She continued to wave and smile wildly. "People treat me like an idiot so I'm allowed to act like one from time to time. It's one of the perks.
Abby SlovinWhen we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!
Stephen RichardsTags: age old-age ageing old-men stephen-richards stephen-richards-self-help aged ageism old-women retired
The good thing about being old is not being young.
Stephen RichardsTags: age old old-age old-people stephen-richards stephen-richards-self-help ageism retired old-aged retiring
Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a dark profound,
Our deafness each one laughs about.
Then reason's light with falling ray
Doth but a trembling flicker cast.
Honor to age, ye children pay!
Alas! my fifty years are past!
Tags: age pain reason poetry old-age honor blindness deafness
Hope is sweet.
Hope is illumining.
Hope is fulfilling.
Hope can be everlasting.
Therefore, do not give up hope,
Even in the sunset of your life.
Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
Yann MartelTags: rudeness old-age inability-to-say-thankyou study-in-character
I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly. I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows. I tell all old men that to their face, all these venerable old men, all these silver-haired and reverend seniors! I tell the whole world that to its face! I have a right to say so, for I shall go on living to sixty myself. To seventy! To eighty!
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: old-age
Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?
George OrwellTags: old-age
I can't really tell how old I am, only that I'm too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in the past, and too old to wish the future will bring me all the answers.
Gabriel BáTags: youth old-age life-and-living future-past
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