The old-like children-talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear ones secret are one's own!

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. You can't stop the plane; you can't stop the storm; you can't stop time. So one might as well accept it calmly wisely

The struggle tires us, and our hair is gray You and I, old friend, can we just watch our efforts being washed away?

Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it reserves it by giving it the absolute dimension-'As unto himself eternity changes him at last. Death does away with time.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

Such was my body once. Now it is weary and tottering, the house of many ills, an old house with flaking plaster. Not otherwise is the world of the truthful.

When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past-and when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent-that is to triumph over old age.

Old men are always young enough to learn, with profit.

Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.

We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age, for old age brings with it its own defects.

It's not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we remain.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.