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Let our inspirational and positive old age quotes and sayings help us live a fulfilling life and not worry much about the inevitable aging process of the body.
How do you appreciate old age?
A beautiful Spanish proverb says, ‘ a restful old age is a reward for a youth well spent.’
We will respect and accept old age gracefully when we have lived a fulfilled life in youth.
If adulthood is not lived in all its vigor and aliveness, sluggish work life, relationship turmoils, and lots of temporary pleasures to compensate for the work stress, overall, one has lived a compromised life.
Old age will be spent in diseases, in regrets of those moments that couldn’t get materialize.
One of the best ways to make aging graceful is never to stop working on things you find passionate, a great love life, keeping yourself busy in things you find lovable, calming, and feel contented.
Let Pablo Casals’s beautiful saying echo in our hearts forever as we all will enter old age eventually, ‘ the man who works and is not bored is never old.’
Remember, getting old is more psychological than physical. Live life in such a way that getting old is not a matter of great concern.
Live each day beautifully, put the time to best use, and have great and meaningful relationships to share life with throughout the life journey. Then old age will not haunt us badly in our thoughts.
Best Old Age Quotes and Sayings
The man who works and is not bored is never old.
– Pablo Casals
Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
– Maggie Kuhn
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
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
– Thomas Carlyle
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they’re younger. Once you get to being old, you’re already there, so you don’t even think about it anymore.
– Paolo Sorrentino
A restful old age is the reward for a youth well spent.
– Spanish Proverb
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
– Golda Meir
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
– Fred Astaire
Old age is no place for sissies.
– Bette Davis
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
– Bernard M. Baruch
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
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
– W. Somerset Maugham
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
– Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.
– Muhammad Ali
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
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
– Confucius
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
– Maurice Chevalier
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
– Leon Trotsky
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
– Emily Dickinson
Old age is the verdict of life.
– Amelia E Barr
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
– Pindar
I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
– Billy Graham
Not even old age knows how to love death.
– Sophocles
Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
– Spurgeon
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
– W. Somerset Maugham
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
– Louis Kronenberger
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
– Mason Cooley
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
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
– Maurice Chevalier
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
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
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don’t fully appreciate.
– Tony Benn
We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
– Francisco de Quevedo
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
– Alan Bleasdale
Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.
– Charles Eastman
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 think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they’re jokes that don’t make people laugh.
– Simon Le Bon
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
– Ira Gershwin
Old age isn’t a battle; old age is a massacre.
– Philip Roth
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
– Phyllis Diller
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
– Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
– W. Somerset Maugham
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.
– Richter
The theme of old age doesn’t seem to fascinate Hollywood.
– John Updike
That’s the privilege of old age: You don’t have to remember.
– Alan Arkin
Old age is an insult. It’s like being smacked.
– Lawrence Durrell
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
– A. J. P. Taylor
Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
– Antiphanes
I owe it to old age that my desire for conversation is so increased.
– Roman Proverb
Laugh not at a man because he is old, for age will also come to you.
– Chinese Proverb
Fear old age, for it does not come alone.
– Greek Proverb
When it comes to old age we’re all in the same boat, only some of us have been aboard a little longer.
– Leo Probst
Eventually, you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
– Will Rogers
Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
– Keith Richards
Don’t let ageing get you down. It’s so hard to get back up.
– John Wagner
I’m 59 and people call me middle-aged. How many 118-year-old men do you know?
– Barry Cryer
Old age takes away what we’ve inherited and gives us what we’ve earned.
– Gerald Brenan
Till death do us part’ doesn’t sound so horrible. It only means about 10 or 15 years and not the eternity it used to mean.
– Joy Behar
We don’t grow older, we grow riper.
– Pablo Picasso
Old age at least gives me an excuse for not being very good at things.
– Thomas Sowell
Autumn is really the best of the seasons, and I’m not sure that old age isn’t the best part of life.
– C.S. Lewis
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
– Madeleine L’Engle
The great comfort of turning 49 is the realization that you are now too old to die young.
– Paul Dickson
In old age, we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the post, we have arrived.
– Knut Hamsun
The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.
– Bertrand Russell
Old age is a tyrant which forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death.
– Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
– B.F. Skinner & M.E. Vaughan
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
– Fred Astaire
Some men mellow with age, like wine; but others get still more stringent, like vinegar.
– Henry C. Rowland
For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of harvest.
– Jewish Saying
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
– Jonathan Swift
Those that desire to write or say anything to me have no time to lose; for time has shaken me by the hand and death is not far behind.
– John Wesley
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
– Oscar Wilde
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
– Psalm 71:9
There’s one more terrifying fact about old people; I’m going to be one soon.
– P.J. O’Rourke
I don’t know how you feel about old age, but in my case, I didn’t see it coming. It hit me in the rear.
– Phyllis Diller
I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. It’s time for my nap.
– Bob Hope
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