#old age

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

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#age #american #american women #disability #disproportionately

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#giving #many #old #old age #pleasures

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#gloom #hope #inward #old #old age

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. ↗

— Jean Paul

#cease #hopes #joys #makes #old

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself. ↗

— Bijou Phillips

#age #better #come #feel #find

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

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#cheerful #heart #hopeful #keep #kindly

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

— Billy Graham

#confess #i #must #old #old age

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ↗

— George Santayana

#grafted #green #inveterate #most #old

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

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

#days #decline #first #immortality #life