Old age quotations
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- Christopher Morley99◆ If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean—even if it did build muscle—whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same me but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period… the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities.
- Christopher Hitchens99◆ A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
- John Barrymore99◆ Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.
- Christopher Hitchens99◆ If people lived to be a thousand years old, there'd be extreme inequality, based not on class like now, but on genetics. Think how far behind unmotivated and lazy people lag now after only 65 years on earth, and then multiply that by 15.?
- Jarod Kintz99◆ Death is coming—but hopefully not before old age, decrepitude, and senility.?
- Jarod Kintz99◆ I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.
- Haruki Murakami99◆ Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.
- Vera Nazarian99◆ I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight; I have been labouring under the delusion they were about five and six. And yesterday I happened to notice in the mirror that while I have long since grown used to my beard being very grey indeed, I was not prepared to discover that my eyebrows are becoming noticeably shaggy. I feel the tomb is just around the corner. And there are all these books I haven't read yet, even if I am simultaneously reading at least twenty...
- Edward Gorey99◆ And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.
- Howard Thurman99◆ If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
- John Irving99◆ And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
- Mark Doty99◆ He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
- Ray Bradbury99◆ The good thing about being old is not being young.
- Stephen Richards99◆ When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!
- Stephen Richards99
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