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 preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Age will not be defied.