#old age

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#blunder #manhood #old #old age #regret

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#being #insult #like #old #old age

Old age is a shipwreck. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#old #old age #shipwreck

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. ↗

— Herman Melville

#always #aught #death #less #life

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. ↗

— Pindar

#childhood #graceful #honorable #immortality #old

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age. ↗

— Billy Graham

#confess #i #must #old #old age

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#asylum #built #dean #dreams #himself

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit. ↗

— Thomas Willis

#born #broken #drunkards #effeminate #great

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones? ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#age #attacking #besides #cruelty #ever

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#bed #die #elephant #had #i