She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk ...
Ann BrasharesTags: life adventure old quiet life-and-living painful
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
He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly old and crippled. Turned out the rope didn't care if you noticed every daisy on the path to the gallows.
Chris CleaveTags: life age time melancholy death old
It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the old ways of being and behaving, so that you were gradually a stranger to the place you lived in. The woman priest with jogging clothes and a BlackBerry gave Mary a glimpse of what life must have been like for her mother as she grew older.
John LanchesterTags: old mother aging stranger
It is always in season for old men to learn.
AeschylusGeorge Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
Elisabeth ElliotTags: inspirational age god youth old jesus christian aging stages
I don't know. I don't really like old movies. The acting is so, 'Hey buddy, ol' pal. Let's go wear our hats and have a big misunderstanding
Stephanie PerkinsTags: old film funny-but-true
A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.
Miguel SyjucoOff with the old and on with the new and never a second's thought between.
Helen HodgmanTags: old new second-thought
A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.
Brennan ManningTags: age soul ideals old old-age ideal
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