Old age Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about old age.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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The wrinkles of the spirit make us older than those of the face.

Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia

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Old age is a disease like any other in which one ultimately dies inexorably.

Alfred de Musset

Alfred de Musset

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Man is the only one who ages; everything else rejuvenates around him every day.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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There is something sadder than growing old, and that is to remain a child.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

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When they tell me I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.

Pythagoras of Samos

Pythagoras of Samos

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A beautiful old age is usually the reward of a beautiful life.

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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We all desire to grow old; and we all deny that we have grown old.

Fernando de Rojas

Fernando de Rojas

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No one is so old that they cannot live another year, nor so young that they could not die today.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the following thirty, the commentary.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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In old age, one learns better to hide failures; in youth, to endure them.

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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Everyone would like to live a long time, but no one would want to be old.