#old age

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#growing #grown #happy #his #honest

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. ↗

— Max Weber

#computations #even #good #head #himself

It is not well to make great changes in old age. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#changes #great #great changes #make #old

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

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him. ↗

— Michelangelo

#been #believe #designated #give #god

No lie ever reaches old age. ↗

— Sophocles

#ever #lie #old #old age #reaches

Old age and the passage of time teach all things. ↗

— Sophocles

#all things #old #old age #passage #teach

Not even old age knows how to love death. ↗

— Sophocles

#death #even #how #knows #love

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

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. ↗

— Philip Roth

#battle #massacre #old #old age