Best Old People Quotes

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in which kids can go to college, in which old people have health care. Will I succeed? I can’t guarantee you that, but I can tell you that from a human point of view it is better to show up than to give up.

The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.

The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

I’m passionate about old people because I am one myself.

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.

Catholic media sucks. It’s boring. It’s for old people. It’s not interesting. It’s like you’re in a class with an 80 year old nun.

Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with – but God didn’t take me, so I cut the braid.

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn’t be, perhaps, but it is. When you’re young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn’t really important at all. It’s young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. – Jane Marple

The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.

It really hurts my feelings when people are mean to old people, or when people yell at their little kids. Just ask them what’s wrong, bro. I think we all just need to be nicer.

I live in a pretty liberal place, so it’s a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look up California, it’s a really shitty place when it comes to things like that. So I think it will just take time. Old people have to die. Once the generation right under my Mom dies, we’ll be fine.

I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?

There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will never succeed in overcoming good – whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed.

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people s hands, people used to be shocked because they d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it’s fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I’m very, very critical.

One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

I’m sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people – because the ages don’t mix any more.

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that’s how I speak.

In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul’s moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I… I am my life’s debtor, for I have given promises.

The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.