Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
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.
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.