Old Age Quotes
"Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Book 4: The Academy, 47, c. 200 A.D..
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.242
Nubes ( The Clouds), l.1417.
Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
"Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.
Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”
There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.
Joyce Kilmer (1911). “Summer of Love”
Marie Corelli (19??). “Jane: A Social Incident”, p.27, Health Research Books
Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.
Robert Collyer (1871). “The life that now is, sermons”, p.303
Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.
Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.9, Open Road Media