#old age

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#belong #colors #divine #done #hundred

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#belongs #body #evil #far #feeling

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. ↗

— Golda Meir

#aboard #flying #like #nothing #old

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#combined #fans #follow #i #i think

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. ↗

— Freya Stark

#am #faith #hands #hold #i

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#age #aim #apparent #between #childhood

I've gotten crankier in my old age. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#gotten #i #old #old age

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#children #deserve #earned #end #face

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#bright #grave #lead #lovely #night

How young can you die of old age? ↗