Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.
Old Quotes
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it […]
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.
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
