Welcome to our collection of Old Age Quotes! Aging is a natural part of life, and throughout history, people from all walks of life have shared their thoughts, wisdom, and humor about growing older. Whether you’re looking for inspiration, nostalgia, or a touch of wit, you’ll find a treasure trove of quotes on this topic right here. We’ve curated a selection of profound, insightful, and sometimes lighthearted quotes that capture the essence of aging. Feel free to explore these timeless words of wisdom, copy them, place them on an image, or enhance them with stylish fonts to share with friends and family. Let these quotes remind you of the beauty and wisdom that comes with the passage of time, and may they inspire you to embrace each moment of your journey through life.
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My problem isn’t death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down. Donald Hall
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. Denis Diderot
Old age is just a record of one’s whole life. Muhammad Ali
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. Josh Billings
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. Sinclair Lewis
Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple. Regina Brett
All diseases run into one, old age. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’ve been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around. Maeve Binchy
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. Eleanor Roosevelt
While I am in this world, I am resolved that no vexation shall put me out of temper if I can possibly command myself. Even old age, which is making strides towards me, shall not prevail to make me peevish. Samuel Adams
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. Margaret Mead
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. Andre Maurois
Old age is an insult. It’s like being smacked. Lawrence Durrell
One of the things you learn in football is that you’re only as good as your last outing. I don’t like to reflect on what we’ve done in the past. I’m not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I’d disappoint you. When it’s time, I’ll talk about the good old days. But it’s a sign of old age, reveling in the past. Chuck Noll
Old age is a shipwreck. Charles de Gaulle
Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. Maggie Kuhn
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. Hosea Ballou
Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the ‘Age War.’ The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age. Robert Kiyosaki
I embrace old age. Look, I’m never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I’ve learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I’m very fortunate, and I have my blessings. Mark Wahlberg
I don’t mind being older. I’m proud of my age. I’ve achieved a lot. It’s the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn’t it strange that now we’re living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it’s a less valuable commodity? Jerry Hall
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
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. Friedrich Nietzsche
The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. Leon Edel
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Francis Bacon
How young can you die of old age? Steven Wright
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Victor Hugo
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. Phyllis Diller
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. Thomas Carlyle
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. Leon Trotsky
In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long. Pope Paul VI
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. Desiderius Erasmus
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
I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time. Bonnie Raitt
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. Malcolm Muggeridge
There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. Fay Weldon
I don’t know what’s happened to me. I’ve got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it. Danny Dyer
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. Booth Tarkington
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. Dwight L. Moody
Old age isn’t a battle; old age is a massacre. Philip Roth
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. Will Durant
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. C. S. Lewis
We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. Frank A. Clark
Expansions do not die of old age. The probability of recession in the following year is the same for a three-year-old expansion as it is for a five- or six-year-old expansion. Edgar Fiedler
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. Dorothy Dix
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. Simone de Beauvoir
Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. Geoffrey Chaucer
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. Lactantius
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. Charlotte Bronte
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. Amos Bronson Alcott
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me. Saint Patrick
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. David Mamet
The New Age? It’s just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds. James Randi
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. Jean Paul
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. Wilfred Owen
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. Aldous Huxley
A man’s character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer. Hesketh Pearson
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. Pindar
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. Golda Meir
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am. Bernard Baruch
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. George Sand
Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think. Michael Caine
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. Ausonius
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. James Thurber
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up – sickness, old age, and death – are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential. Paul Di Filippo
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
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. Benjamin Disraeli
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you. Marilyn Monroe
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. Emily Dickinson
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. Bob Wells
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. Miguel de Unamuno
It is not well to make great changes in old age. Charles Spurgeon
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19. E. B. White
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. William Wordsworth
The theme of old age doesn’t seem to fascinate Hollywood. John Updike
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. W. Somerset Maugham
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
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. Felix Frankfurter
A woman tells her doctor, ‘I’ve got a bad back.’ The doctor says, ‘It’s old age.’ The woman says, ‘I want a second opinion.’ The doctor says: ‘Okay – you’re ugly as well.’ Tommy Cooper
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. Bill Bryson
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. Pearl S. Buck
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
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age – which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. Noel Coward
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. George Santayana
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
There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise. Robert Green Ingersoll
The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man. Elie Metchnikoff
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives. Billy Graham
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway. Mario Monicelli
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. Edith Wharton
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. Mark Twain
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. Victor Hugo
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. Louisa May Alcott
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
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I’d rather have fun. Heather Graham
