#old age

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#allowing #appetites #brings #death #deprives

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#big #chief #destination #difference #early

Old age is no place for sissies. ↗

— Bette Davis

#old #old age #place #sissies

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#comes #gradually #old #old age #suddenly

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#all things #happen #man #most #old

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

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#dead #old #old age #poets #sure

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#depends #develop #early #enables #finish

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#brief #days #encounters #even #experienced