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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
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.
From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.