Such was my body once. Now it is weary and tottering, the house of many ills, an old house with flaking plaster. Not otherwise is the world of the truthful.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

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 reserves it by giving it the absolute dimension-'As unto himself eternity changes him at last." Death does away with time.

Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.

The struggle tires us, and our hair is gray You and I, old friend, can we just watch our efforts being washed away?

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. You can't stop the plane; you can't stop the storm; you can't stop time. So one might as well accept it calmly wisely

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield.

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.