The answer to old age is to keep one’s
The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. Leon Edel
We’ve put more effort into helping folks
We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. Frank A. Clark
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. Max Lerner
I’m not afraid
I’m not afraid of aging. Shelley Duvall
He has a profound respect for old age.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it’s bottled. Gene Fowler
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it,
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. Sinclair Lewis
To keep the heart unwrinkled
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
In old age we are like
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. Knut Hamsun
There’s no such thing as old age
There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. Fay Weldon
Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age,
Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young. Dorothy Canfield Fisher