Old Age Quotes

But I'm not afraid. I'm truly curious. Death won't get a crumb by my mouth I won't keep and savor.

What is passable in youth is detestable in later age.

Old age is the bitterest vengeance our vengeful God inflicts upon us. Why doesn’t He age our minds as well?

I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!

It is the privilege of old people to seem to know everything. But it's an act and a mask, like every other act and mask Between ourselves, we old ones wink at each other and smile, saying, How do you like my mask, my act, my certainty? Isn't life a play? Don't I play it well?

We go upstairs to her room, and Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old.
Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old animals should be an unnatural exception.