I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.
There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year.
Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.