Being Old Quotes

“Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don't care. Old is when you don't want to dance anymore. Old is when you don't want to learn anything new except how to be old. Old is when people tell you that you are old-and you believe them.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“All of a sudden you may realise that you are no longer young! And at that moment, you must also realise that by refusing getting old you can catch a chance to continue to be young!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Old age is meant to slow us down just before the final destination; otherwise reaching the stop would be too abrupt." - On Old Age”
― Lamine Pearlheart, To Life from the Shadows

“It would of course be a shame to get too old. There’s no virtue in living too long. Living shouldn’t become a habit.”
― Percival Everett, Erasure

“Emigration was not to others the obvious remedy, the sublime conception. It was not to them ... the liberator of the pent egotism, which a strong martial woman, well nourished, well descended, of direct impulses, downright feelings, and little introspective power (broad and simple—why could not every one be broad and simple? she asked) feels rise within her, once youth is past, and must eject upon some objectit may be Emigration, it may be Emancipation; but whatever it be, this object round which the essence of her soul is daily secreted, becomes inevitably prismatic, lustrous, half looking glass, half precious stone; now carefully hidden in case people should sneer at it; now proudly displayed.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“I'm too old to be young and I'm too young to be old.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“As for me?
I am a pensioner now.
they have put me out to stud”
― Kenan Hudaverdi