#old age

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

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#days #decline #first #immortality #life

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

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#age #bad #beauty #even #everything

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age. ↗

— Anna Held

#indulgent #mistake #most #old #old age

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

— Philip Roth

#battle #massacre #old #old age

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#cheerful #heart #hopeful #keep #kindly