I’m just wandering, I think of things and then they go away forever. (Describing her inability to write caused by the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.)
Old Quotes
When the age is in, the wit is out. (Much Ado About Nothing)
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
My oil-dried lamp, shall be extinct with age. My inch of taper will be burnt and done. (Richard III)
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it.
Middle age ends and senescence begins, The day your descendants outnumber your friends.
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey’d, Such seems your beauty still. (Sonnet 104)
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples.
