Quotes about old age

Not his problem. Fewer and fewer things are.

Rabbit feels as if the human race is a vast colourful jostling bristling parade in which he is limping and falling behind.

[Judy, 8, is watching TV] He tells Judy, "Better pack it in, sweetie. Another big day tomorrow: we're going to go to the beach and sailing." But his voice comes out listless, and perhaps that is the saddest loss time brings, the lessening of excitement about anything.

[Re Florida] Just not being senile is considered great down here.

When you're retired, you get into your routines and other people, even so-called loved ones, become a strain.

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth’s many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.

Like many people who are losing their grip, he mistook it for the coming of a new wisdom in himself.

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.

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

Should he ever write an autobiography, he'd call it The Life and Death of a Male Body.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

There’s no virtue in being old, it just takes a long time.