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110 Quotations On Sadness Of Senior Citizens

110 quotations on sadness of senior citizens, Expressing their thoughts, experience and their sadness through this messages, quotes and phrases.

Most of us are fearful of reaching old age, the last stop in life, and we even ignore the elderly, believing - falsely - that they have little to contribute to our society.

However, in Best Of Shayari we believe that these are attitudes based on dangerously biased beliefs, and that is why we wanted to give a song of hope to old age with a compilation of old age phrases that put taboos on the table , questioning all the ideas that we usually associate with the elderly .

Although it is impossible to deny the physical and psychological changes that the passage of time implies, dragging us towards a decrease in capacities from which no one can escape, old age brings a predilection for contemplation that is really beautiful if you pay attention to it, and which we should not ignore despite the fact that it appears tinged by a supposed decadence.

Precisely with the intention of delving a little deeper into this question, we offer you the old age phrases that follow; and it is that perhaps, after all, the secret lies in changing the look that we project before this vital stage .

110 Quotations On Sadness Of Senior Citizens

110 Phrases of old age | The wealth of the elderly

  1. Enthusiasm is the daily bread of youth. Skepticism, the daily wine of old age. - Pearl S. Buck

  2. Treasure all your happy moments; they will be a good cushion for old age. - Booth Tarkington

  3. The wrinkles of the spirit make us older than those of the face. - Michel de Montaigne

  4. The secret of genius is to transport the spirit of the child to old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley

  5. The secret of a good old age is nothing more than an honest pact with loneliness. - Gabriel García Márquez

  6. It is old age, rather than death, that must be contrasted with life. Old age is the parody of life, while death transforms life into a destiny: it somehow preserves it by giving it absolute dimension. Death eliminates time. - Simone de Beauvoir

  7. When grace meets wrinkles, it’s adorable. There is an indescribable dawn in happy old age. - Victor Hugo

  8. Old age is a tyrant who forbids, under pain of death, all the pleasures of youth. - François de La Rochefoucauld

  9. The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you are learning, you are not old. - Rosalyn S. Yalow

  10. Old age is just a record of a lifetime. - Muhammad Ali

  11. Man is the only one who grows old; everything else rejuvenates around you every day. - Alfred de Musset

  12. Nothing makes us age faster than incessantly thinking about getting old. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  13. Old age means nothing more than to stop suffering from the past. - Stefan Zweig

  14. A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of sad and melancholic perspectives on decadence, it gives us hope of eternal youth in a better world. - Maurice Chevalier

  15. Aging is still the only means that has been found to live long. - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  16. There is something sadder than getting old, and that is to continue being a child. - Cesare Pavese

  17. Nothing ages us as much as the death of those we knew in childhood. - Julian Green

  18. The art of growing old is the art of keeping some hope. - André Maurois

  19. Old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. - Sir Francis Bacon

  20. Aging is like climbing a great mountain: while climbing, the forces diminish, but the gaze is freer, the view broader and more serene. - Ingmar Bergman

  21. The old distrust the youth because they have been young. - William Shakespeare

  22. Old age has sufficient deformities of its own. The deformity of vice should never be added to them. - Eleanor Roosevelt

  23. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are no less than the pleasures of youth. - W. Somerset Maugham

  24. Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. - Leon Trotsky

  25. The young man should not be happy, but the old man who has lived a beautiful life. - Epicurus of Samos

  26. Old age is not a disease: it is strength and survival, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and diseases. - Maggie Kuhn

  27. Old age is not a matter of sadness. It is a thank you if we have left our work behind. - Thomas Carlyle

  28. Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative. - Maurice Chevalier

  29. Old age leads to an indifferent tranquility that ensures inner and outer peace. - Anatole France

  30. Memory in youth is active and easily impressionable; in old age it is comparatively insensitive to new impressions, but still vividly retains those of previous years. - Charlotte Brontë

  31. In my deepest dreams, I never have an assigned age. - Madeleine L’Engle

  32. Don’t try to live forever, because you will never be successful . - George Bernard Shaw

  33. Men are like wine, some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. - Pope John XIII

  34. The only positive thing about getting old is that you never lose all the other ages you have had. - Madeleine L’Engle

  35. You don’t stop laughing because you get older. You get older because you stop laughing. - Maurice Chevalie

  36. Age is something that does not matter, unless you are a cheese. - Luis Buñuel

  37. In old age there is no place for cowards. - Henry Louis Mencken

  38. The hardest years of life are those between the ages of ten and seventy. - Helen Hayes

  39. In youth we learn, in old age we understand. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  40. Forty is the old age of youth; the fifties the youth of old age. - Victor Hugo

  41. It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. - W. Somerset Maugham

  42. Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes. - Oscar Wilde

  43. There is no empirical evidence that longevity has reached the limit in 120 years. - Dr. Rosa Gómez-Redondo

  44. As time passes and you get older, you realize that there are no answers to many questions. However, what is always left over are stories. - Garrison Keillor

  45. Cherish all your happy moments; they will make a good mattress for your old age. - Booth Tarkington

  46. To some extent, there is a part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only in exceptional moments and, most of the time, we do not have an assigned age. - Milan Kundera

  47. The error of the old man is that he tries to judge today with the criteria of yesterday. - Epictetus of Phrygia

  48. Honestly, the bosses of old age are beautiful, because they go beyond all grace of youth. - Robinson Jeffers

  49. One begins to be young at the age of sixty. - Pablo Picasso

  50. Live life and forget your age. - Norman Vincent Peale

  51. At 50, everyone has the face they deserve. - George Orwell

  52. Old age comes suddenly, and not gradually as you think. - Emily Dickinson

  53. I will never be an old man. For me, old age is always 15 years later. - Francis Bacon

  54. Young people may not know what age thinks and feels like, but old people are responsible if they forget what it meant to be young. - JK Rowling

  55. Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you want to keep them in good working order. - ohn Adams

  56. As I get older, I realize that what I value the most is a good heart. - Alice Walker

  57. Old age is like an airplane flying into a storm. Once you are on board, there is nothing you can do. - Golda Meir

  58. There is a great lie in the world that confirms the wisdom of the oldest, however, I think that they do not grow wise, I just think that they become more careful. - Ernest Hemingway

  59. The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball

  60. As I get older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just see what they do. - Andrew Carnegie

  61. When you read these excerpts, you will already be older than you remember. - Chuck Palahniuk

  62. Shyness is not an adornment for youth, but a reproach to old age. - Aristotle

  63. Conduct and behavior can increase life expectancy by up to 15 years. - Dr. Kaare Christensen

  64. As you get older, you do not get wiser, on the contrary, you become more susceptible. - Doris Lessing

  65. You don’t stop laughing because you get old, actually, you get old because you stop laughing. - Michael Pritchard

  66. You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get older. - George Burns

  67. Middle age begins when your age begins to show itself around the middle of your body. - Bob Hope

  68. Age is the acceptance of a period of years, but maturity is the glory of years. - Martha Graham

  69. It is paradoxical that the idea of ​​living a long life appeals to everyone, but that aging does not appeal to anyone. - Andy Rooney

  70. Youth is a gift of nature, but age is a work of art. - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  71. When we are 20 years old, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don’t really care what others think of us and at 60, we find that they haven’t thought of us at all. - Ann Landers

  72. Get old with me! Do not doubt that the best is yet to come. - Robert Browning

  73. A birthday is just another day in which you will go to work and people will give you their love. Age is just a state of mind and therefore you are as old as you consider yourself to be. You should always try to count your blessings and be happy. - Abhishek Bachchan

  74. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether they are in their 20s or 80s. Anyone who continues to learn stays young. - Henry Ford

  75. Old age is not how old you are, but how you feel. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  76. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

  77. The minute a man stops growing, regardless of his age, he begins to be old. - William James

  78. Age is a matter of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. - Mark Twain

  79. Age considers, youth ventures. - Rabindranath Tagore

  80. Too many people feel that they have to live according to the calendar. - John Glenn

  81. Aging is not lost youth, but a new stage of opportunity and strength. - Betty Frieda

  82. Older men declare war but it is the youth who must fight and die for them. - Herbert Hoover

  83. A man who grows older becomes a child again. - Sophocles

  84. The tragedy of life is that we grow old too soon and wise too late. - Benjamin Franklin

  85. A man is not old until remorse takes the place of his dreams. - John Barrymore

  86. A man knows that he is getting older because he begins to look like his father. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  87. We are always the same age on the inside. - Gertrude Stein

  88. I think people would live a little longer if they didn’t know how old they are. Age is responsible for imposing restrictions on things. - Karl Pilkington

  89. A person who is calm and happy in nature will hardly feel the pressure generated by age. - Plato

  90. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? - Leroy Paige

  91. The age of a woman does not mean anything. The best melodies are played on ancient violins. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  92. Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. - CS Lewis

  93. In 20 years you will regret more what you did not do than what you did, so let go of the moorings and leave the safe harbor. - Mark Twain

  94. One should never trust a woman who tells one her true age. - Oscar Wilde

  95. Age is a high price to pay for maturity. - Tom Stoppard

  96. The older I get, the more I distrust the family doctrine that says that age brings wisdom. - HL Mencken

  97. That age, not envy, draw wrinkles on your cheeks. - Thomas Browne

  98. We are all born originals and most of us end up being copies. - Carl Jung

  99. Age does not protect you from love. But love, up to a point, does protect you from age. - Jeanne Moreau

  100. I am not young enough to know everything. - Oscar Wilde

  101. I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I remind myself that it is no longer necessary. - Albert Einstein

  102. As we age, health and longevity depend 25% on physical aspects and 75% on behavioral aspects. - Dr. Fernandez-Ballesteros R.

  103. Forget about having a birthday and start fulfilling dreams. - Nit

  104. No one is as old as those who have survived enthusiasm. - Henry David Thoreau

  105. Youth has no age. - Pablo Picasso

  106. It is not the years in your life that count, it is the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln

  107. The tragedy of old age is not that you are old, but that you are young. - Oscar Wilde

  108. We adults are obsolete children. - Dr. Seuss

  109. The trick is to grow up without getting older. - Casey Stengel

  110. Wrinkles should simply indicate where the smiles have been. - Mark Twain

We hope that our collection of old age phrases has been interesting enough for you to provoke reflections about this much questioned stage of life. In fact, we would like nothing more than to know your thoughts, emotions and experiences through a comment . Tell us, which of our old age or senior citizens quotes have impacted you the most? What is your relationship with old age? Do you know other quotations on sadness of senior citizens to be part of our list? Express us all your impressions, we are looking forward to meeting them.