Six Quotes About Old Age

"A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days,
a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30,
a man at 100, and some species of
tortoises not until 150 years."
-- Leonard Hayflick --

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"There are people in their sixties
who suffer when they lose friends
or relatives of their generation,
from the loss of a certain image
of themselves that the dead possessed; with him, there vanishes
a part of youth or childhood that he
alone remembered."
-- Simone de Beauvoir/ THE COMING OF
AGE --

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"The heart does not grow old, but it
is sad to dwell among ruins."
-- Voltaire --

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"The aging of man is accepted. He can age like a bronze statue, acquire a patina, character and quality like that of architecture.
The aging of woman is like crushed
satin, wilted flowers. We do not
forgive a woman aging. We demand that her dewy, ephemeral quality
that we call beauty never change."
-- Anais Nin/ THE DIARY OF ANAIS NIN

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"One of the fearful developments in
the consciousness of many old people
is that, in the eyes of society,
they have become another species."
-- Ronald Blythe/ THE VIEW IN WINTER

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"The invisible life of the thing goes up in flames that are invisible, like cellophane burning
in the sunlight."
-- Galway Kinnell --

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