Old Quotes

“The Light is goodness, this much I know. It is chivalry and nobility, it is honor, peace, health, love, and brotherhood; it is like a flowery meadow, a clear brook, or a flowing river--all that is beautiful and goodly. It is found in good deeds done duly well, in the simple plea of an innocent child, in the undying hope of the young, and the honest yearnings of the old.”
― Trinity Vinton, The Rise of Ethrundson: Quest of a Thousand Questions

“The landscape of Singapore is different now. Modern buildings scratch the skyline with a pomp and display that wasn't there in days gone by. Old and new come together to create a modern Singapore that was still in the process of being made as I grew up.”
― Dipa Sanatani, The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey

“I think that one of the greatest achievements in becoming an adult is to carefully cultivate the child within us so that the adult that we are becoming is never given enough room to destroy us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Your bare feet on the cold floor as you climb out of bed and walk to the window. You are sixty-four years old. Outside, the air is gray, almost white, with no sun visible. You ask yourself: How many mornings are left?
A door has closed. Another door has opened.
You have entered the winter of your life.”
― Paul Auster, Winter Journal

“The conveniences of modern culture cater exclusively to youth, and that the times grow increasingly inconsiderate of old people”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

“When you are immature, you pride yourself on petty things such as being older than someone or some people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The old is replaced, and the new overthrown.”
― Mantaranjot Mangat, Plotless

“The unhappiness of the bachelor, whether seeming or actual, is so easily guessed at by the world around him that he will curse his decision, at least if he has remained a bachelor because of the delight he takes in secrecy. He walks around with his coat buttoned, his hands in the upper pockets of his jacket, his arms akimbo, his hat pulled down over his eyes, a false smile that has become natural to him is supposed to shield his mouth as his glasses do his eyes, his trousers are tighter than seem proper for his thin legs. But everyone knows his condition, can detail his sufferings. A cold breeze breathes upon him from within and he gazes inward with the even sadder half of his double face. He moves incessantly, but with predictable regularity, from one apartment to another. The farther he moves away from the living, for whom he must still – and this is the worst mockery – work like a conscious slave who dare not express his consciousness, so much the smaller a space is considered sufficient for him. While it is death that must still strike down the others, though they may have spent all their lives in a sickbed – for even though they would have gone down by themselves long ago from their own weakness, they nevertheless hold fast to their loving, very healthy relatives by blood and marriage – he, this bachelor, still in the midst of life, apparently of his own free will resigns himself to an ever smaller space, and when he dies the coffin is exactly right for him.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“Sometimes adults didn’t like to be asked their ages, and sometimes they did. In my experience, old people did. They were proud of their ages. Mrs. Wollery was seventy-seven, and Mr. Wollery was eighty-nine, and they liked telling us how old they were.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Everything that is old was once new.”
― Adrienne Posey

“Oh how I long for you Youth! why are you wary of me so?”
― Teniteni

“One day your parents will react and act exactly the same way you did during your young days. Patience is what you need during the times.”
― Angel

“Now, we are not so old that we can not learn something new and we can not do anything new.”
― Raivi Ranjan Goswami

“When you are willing you are YOU. You are able and feel young. When you are unwilling you are unable and feel old.”
― Meir Ezra

“Keep your young roadworthy, and your old insured.”
― Mantaranjot Mangat, Plotless

“Happiness attracts debris as something new sometimes.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“We learn old lessons or history teaches them again, our choice on what we prefer.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“It's not that we stop working when we get old, but we get old when we stop working.”
― Picazo Basha, Shambala Sect

“Some women look like their mothers’ mothers. Some look like they’re their mothers’ mothers.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“And in the same fashion, while we can if we choose see the Church amid a mob of Mithraic or Manichean superstitions squabbling and killing each other at the end of the Empire, while we can if we choose imagine the Church killed in the struggle and some other chance cult taking its place, we shall be the more surprised (and possibly puzzled) if we meet it two thousand years afterwards rushing through the ages as the winged thunderbolt of thought and everlasting enthusiasm; a thing without rival or resemblance; and still as new as it is old.”
― G K Chesterton

“My age is an imaginary number.”
― Carol L. Covin

“At some point, old is indistinguishable from drunk.”
― Carol L. Covin

“Just wait until you get to be my age. If there’s a hair that isn’t gray, it’s an achievement. Getting old means getting ugly.”
― Jean-Luke Swanepoel, The Thing About Alice

“Sudden change is of a different order than feedback or evolution. Observe the whirlpools below a waterfall. For many seasons the eddies stay in the same place no matter whether the water is high or low. Then, suddenly, one more stone falls into the basin, the entire array changes, and the old can never be reconstructed.”
― Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality

“Older is not old.”
― Harmik Vaishnav, Coffee Beans

“It is rare for someone who is older to be bolder.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I want to sleep beside you and dream of getting us old.”
― Gaurav S Kaintura

“Old is subjective. Maybe your lives are so wild or unearthly that age is an unknown transcendence.”
― Amy Wolkenhauer

“The great things are never outdated by time or technological advances. Rather, they are the things that time and technology cannot move forward without.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“L'età avanzata le permetteva di dire quello che pensava nel momento esatto in cui lo pensava senza che nessuno la contrariasse, e la ricchezza consolidava tale divertimento.”
― Virginia Dellamore, Un vero matrimonio per finta