The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.
The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.