What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Getting older is hard.
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.
When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?
Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.
It's really hard being old - it's horrible.
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.