Sayings about old age

Statements about old age by famous people

Leon Trotsky (November 7, 1879 - August 21, 1940) - revolutionary

Seneca (4 BC - 65) - Roman philosopher, poet, statesman - Old age is an incurable disease - The oppression of (retirement) age is felt only by the body, not the soul

Victor Hugo (February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885) - French romantic writer - The further I move on my life's path, the simpler I become

Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950) - English playwright - There is only one consolation in old age: what you could not get in your youth, you no longer need

They begin to cheat on us And we, like old-timers, must give place to new arrivals, - Then save us, good genius, From cowardly reproaches, From slander, from bitterness For a changing life; From a feeling of hidden anger At the world being renewed, Where new guests sit down for the feast prepared for them... (Tyutchev)

Aristotle (384-322 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher - Old people are attached to life, and the closer to the last day, the more

Cicero (January 3, 106-December 3, 43 BC) - ancient Roman orator, statesman, philosopher - Everyone wants to live to old age, and when they do, they blame her - Old age is by nature too talkative - Old age is strong thanks to the basics laid down in youth

Pliny the Younger (61-113) - ancient Roman politician, writer, lawyer - A calm, orderly life suits old people: it’s too late to strain one’s strength, it’s a shame to achieve honors

Pierre Abelard (1079-21 April 1142) - French philosopher, poet, scientist - What we sin in youth, we have to atone for in old age

Francois de La Rochefoucauld (September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680) - French philosopher, writer - Old people love to give good advice because they are no longer able to set bad examples

Samuel Johnson (September 18, 1709 - December 13) - English literary critic, critic, poet - Old age is usually boastful and tends to exaggerate events and actions that are long gone in the past.

Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (April 4, 1745 - December 12, 1792) - writer, playwright - Happy is he who retains all his feelings in old age

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (January 29, 1860 - July 15, 1904) - writer, playwright - And why is it that in old age a person monitors his feelings and criticizes his actions? Why shouldn't he do this when he was young? Old age is already unbearable

Dusk clings easily and sweetly to the old man's gray hair. You drink a cup without leaving a trace - You see gold at the bottom. But it is not darkness or danger that the Night prepares for you, but saving clarity in the comprehension of existence. Everything that burned, that depressed, Retreats into the world of shadows. Old age is only the beginning of your new lightness. Before you, parting, Days and years pass - Life, with which, parting, you are connected as never before... (Stefan Zweig)

Old age - aphorisms and quotes about old age

Old age is when you know all the answers, but no one asks you. Lawrence Peter

Old age is when every day you feel two days older.

Old age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.

Old age is when you first realize that other people's mistakes are no worse than your own. Edgar Shoaff

Old age is a bad habit that very busy people do not have time to acquire. Andre Maurois

Old age is an incurable disease. Seneca

Everyone shudders the first time they seriously call him an old man. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Old age is the most unexpected thing that awaits us in life. Leon Trotsky

I expected anything, but not that I would grow old. Zofia Nalkowska

Life is divided into three parts: when you believe in Santa Claus, when you don’t believe in Santa Claus, and when you are already Santa Claus yourself. Bob Phillips

Old age is when it is not bad dreams that bother you, but bad reality. Attributed to Faina Ranevskaya

We are respected as old people, although the vices of boys live in us, and not only boys, but also babies; After all, babies are afraid of trivial things, boys are afraid of imaginary things, and we are afraid of both. Seneca

An old man is a person who is ten years older than you. "Pshekruj"

It doesn't bother me that I'm already a grandfather; The only bad thing is that I'm married to my grandmother. Groucho Marx

You are still as slender as a clepsydra, but the sand is almost all below. Bob Hope

Old age is a safe harbor for all disasters. The ancient Greek Bion, as edited by Dm. Pashkova

Old age is an island surrounded by death. Juan Montalvo

Old people are not born, but only die and, however, they are not all transferred. Vasily Klyuchevsky

Wisdom comes in old age to replace reason. Boleslaw Voltaire

Old fools are the biggest fools. They have more experience.

The worst thing about getting old is listening to your own children’s advice.

By the time you learn to calmly endure everything that is said about you, they no longer say anything about you.

One of the few consolations of old age: you no longer get bored with life insurance agents.

I'm too old to be interested in anyone - not even myself. George Bernard Shaw

People are like violins: when the last string breaks, you become a tree. Carmen Silva

There is no such thing as old age. At least there are no continuous pangs of old age at the end of life: every year we, like trees, experience attacks of old age. Jules Renard

The oppression of age is felt only by the body, not the soul, and only the vices and what contributes to them have grown old. Seneca

Old age does not protect from love, but love protects from old age. Coco Chanel

Old age, no matter where it lives, always lives among ruins. Maxim Zvonarev

Old age comes too late - when we no longer have the strength. Leszek Kumor

You don't have to remind me of my age - that's what I have a bladder for. Stephen Fry

How quickly our friends age! Yuzef Bulatovich

Don't think about getting old - it makes you old. "Pshekruj"

You don’t feel old age – others feel it. Stefan Kiselevsky

How few old people in the world know the art of being old! Francois La Rochefoucauld

The beauty of children and old women determines the nobility of the race. Grigory Landau

Old people walk slowly not because their legs hurt, but because they have nowhere to hurry. Bogdan Lebl

And the old lady has a maiden name. Rachel Baumwohl

Entertainment of old age: flirting with death. Horace Safrin

Fifteen years ago you could read on every face: “To be continued...” And now on every face you can only read: “To be continued.” Don Aminado

In the end, from all our interest in our acquaintances and loved ones, the question remains: “Is he still alive?” Vladislav Grzeszczyk

Your own old age is difficult, someone else’s is just burdensome. Vladislav Grzeszczyk

Growing old is boring, but it's the only way to live long. Charles Sainte-Beuve

Aging is not such a terrible thing if you consider the alternative. Maurice Chevalier

Better to be old than dead. Brigitte Bardot You shouldn't be afraid of old age. Old age is powerless. Zbigniew Cholodiuk Old age is sad. Fortunately, it passes. Leszek Kumor

Disease is acquired old age, and old age is a natural disease. Aristotle

The younger you are, the faster you age. The old man ages the slowest. Jean Rostand

Little by little you become as old as you look, and the day your outer and inner ages match, it's all over. Jean Giraudoux

It takes about ten years to realize how old you are. Raymond Michel

At first you grow old not in your own eyes, but in the eyes of those around you; and then you gradually agree with their opinion of yourself. Julian Barnes

Growing old means learning to tolerate your own society.

I was terribly afraid of old age. I was afraid that then I would no longer be able to do everything I wanted. But now I see that I don’t want to do this at all. Nancy Astor

An old man is doubly a child. Aristophanes

The heart does not age, but how painful it is to house a deity in ruins! Voltaire

There are no old people so decrepit that they would be ashamed to hope for an extra day. Seneca

Old people are aware of the ossification of their body, but not their spirit. Marlene Dietrich

Old age needs very little, but this little is needed very, very much. Margaret Willour

Old people are attached to life, and the closer to the last day, the more so. Aristotle

If you want a long old age, grow old early. Ancient Roman saying

..Lonely old age. Trouble for all troubles! Sophocles

A pleasant old man who is friendly and serious. Democritus

Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth, but the advantage of old age is the flowering of prudence. Democritus

Don’t make fun of old age - after all, you are heading towards it. Menander

He who does not remember his former happiness is already an old man today. Epicurus

It is not the young man who should be considered happy, but the old man who has lived his life well... Epicurus

Old age is a bad thing. Plautus Titus Maccius

Old age is a disease in itself. Terence Publius

We should not scold old age: after all, we ourselves would be glad to live to old age. Bion

The crown of old age is universal respect and influence. Cicero Marcus Tullius

Old age is especially worried and tormented by the approach of death, which at this age cannot be far off. Oh, pitiful old man, who failed during such a long life to learn to despise death! Cicero Marcus Tullius

Everyone desires to reach old age, everyone blames it when they reach it; such is our inconstancy, the frivolity of our desires, our perversity! But they say she came earlier than we expected. But who forced you to think falsely? Cicero Marcus Tullius

Everyone wants to live to old age, and when they do, they blame her. Cicero Marcus Tullius

Can we say that old age makes us incapable of doing business? Which ones exactly? Those that are characteristic of youth and require strength. But isn't there anything that an old man could do that could be done with a sound mind and a weakened body? Cicero Marcus Tullius

There is nothing more to be wary of in old age than laziness and idleness. Cicero Marcus Tullius

Old people still have abilities, as long as they remain interested in the work and hard work. Cicero Marcus Tullius

The loss of our strength is much more often the consequence of the impulses of youth than the ravages of age. Intemperate and voluptuous youth passes on a worn-out body to old age. Cicero Marcus Tullius

Foolish people lay down their vices and their guilt for old age. Cicero Marcus Tullius

Old age is strong thanks to the foundations laid in youth. Cicero Marcus Tullius

Old age distracts you from doing business. Cicero Marcus Tullius

Old age is naturally too talkative. Cicero Marcus Tullius

After the body has been weakened by the heavy blows of time, after the arms and legs have become heavy and have lost strength, the mind also begins to limp, the tongue becomes slurred and the mind wanes. Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)

Oh, that Jupiter would return to me the past years! Virgil Maro Publius

Harness the aged horse. Horace (Quintus Horace Flaccus)

The years fly by, and one thing after another is stolen from us: They took away the jokes, the blush, the feasts, the playfulness of love. Horace (Quintus Horace Flaccus)

Not the same years, and not the same mood. Horace (Quintus Horace Flaccus)

An ugly phenomenon is old love. Ovid

Before I was old, I cared about living well; in old age, I cared about dying well. Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

And old age is full of pleasures, if only you know how to use it. Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

Before reaching old age, I tried to live well; in old age I try to die well; To die well, you need to die willingly. Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

Passions give intelligence to the stupidest people and make the smartest people stupid. Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

One can tolerate the chaotic turmoil of a young man's life; Old people are suited to a calm, orderly life: it’s too late to strain one’s strength, it’s a shame to achieve honors. Pliny the Younger

If the old man had the eyes of a young man, then he would see like a young man. Unknown author If a little pleasant-tasting wine remains in a jug, the remainder turns into vinegar: so an old man who has lived his life and reached a ripe old age becomes caustic. Unknown author

None of us are the same in old age as we were in our youth; no one is the same in the morning as he was the day before. Unknown author

Old people are twice children. Unknown author

Old age is the decline of life. Unknown author

Seniors have advantage. Unknown author

An old man in body, a young man in soul. Unknown author

Even the decorated royal chariots wear out, and the body also approaches old age. "Dhammapada"

Chastity in old age is not chastity, but the weakness of powerlessness: a dead man does not get married. Basil the Great

He who is old cannot burn with a young fire, Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Make the gray-haired man's path easier, help at least a little. You yourself will someday understand what old age is. Nasir Khosrow

Try not to fall in love when you get old. Unsur al-Maali

What we sin in our youth we have to atone for in old age. Pierre Abelard

O people, listen with respect to the reproaches and reproaches of the elderly: After all, these people know about the evil and the good of all future events. As-Samarkandi

What a young man is used to seeing in a mirror, an old man sees even in a brick. As-Samarkandi

The property of old age is to make the thorns sharper and the flowers of life paler. Saadi

If an old man is black in heart, What is the use that he has lived a century? Abdurrahman Jami

Old people are used to thinking that they are always smarter than the generation that replaces them. Margaret of Navarre

Buy in your youth something that over the years will compensate you for the damage caused by old age. And, realizing that wisdom is the food of old age, act in your youth so that old age is not left without food. Leonardo da Vinci

The old fool will destroy himself, If he loves vice and lies. Sebastian Brant

When old age is poor it is generous, when it is rich it is stingy. Fernando de Rojas

Nothing accelerates old age more than immoderate drinking, unbridled love and unbridled lust. Erasmus of Rotterdam

What we sin in our youth we have to atone for in old age. Erasmus of Rotterdam

...There is no old man so decrepit that, remembering Methuselah, he would not expect to live another twenty years. Michel de Montaigne

Old people should not think about death: let them better worry about how to better loosen the beds in the garden. Michel de Montaigne

Old age leaves more wrinkles on our mental appearance than on our face. Michel de Montaigne

Old age is a source of wisdom and life experience; by passing them on to the young, you will earn respect and honor. Protasevich Yan (Ivan)

A person is never too old to not learn. Thomas Middleton

Many people grow old much earlier than their years. Thomas Brown

A person who has lived to the age of seventy or eighty may suddenly experience a keen interest in the world, because only now has he learned what the world is, what the world can give, and what it means to be human. Thomas Brown

How worthy of envy is He who, losing his power, loses his life as a warrior, And how fateful is the brave man who lived for a long time and outlived his time! Pierre Corneille

How few old people in the world know the art of being old! Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As people get older, they become more reckless—and wiser. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As we age, mental defects become more and more noticeable, as do defects in appearance. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the old age of love, as in the old age of years, people still live for sorrows, but no longer live for pleasures. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As people get older, they become both dumber and smarter. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old people love to give good advice because they are no longer capable of setting bad examples. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old age is a tyrant who, on pain of death, denies us all the pleasures of youth. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The indifference of old age is no more conducive to the salvation of the soul than the ardor of youth. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

An amorous old man is one of the greatest monstrosities in nature. Jean de La Bruyère

We are afraid of old age, although we are not sure that we will live to see it. Jean de La Bruyère

We hope to reach old age, but we are afraid of growing old. Jean de La Bruyère

For our love of life, old age is desirable; Because of the fear of death, old age is terrible for us. Jean de La Bruyère

An old man, unless he is very smart, is always arrogant, arrogant and unapproachable. Jean de La Bruyère

The diseases of old age weaken our attachment to life as we approach death. Jonathan Swift

In old age, an intelligent person is busy trying to get rid of the thoughtlessness and recklessness that he committed in his youth. Jonathan Swift

Observation is the memory of an old man. Jonathan Swift

Old men and comets are revered for the same reason: both have long beards; both of them have the gift of prediction. Jonathan Swift

When people grow old and become virtuous, they simply sacrifice the remains of the devil to God. Alexander Pop

The old poet, the old lover, the old singer and the old horse are no good. Voltaire

Old age is usually boastful and tends to exaggerate events and actions that are long gone in the past. Samuel Johnson

Nothing ages a person faster than the constant thought that he is getting old. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Happy is he who retains all his feelings in old age. Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin

Prosperity in old age means prolongation of youth. Charles Lamb

At the end of life, only those who suffered from inferiority at the beginning feel superior. Sydney Smith

Exalting the past at the expense of the present is the first sign of old age. Sydney Smith

You have to get old to become kinder; I never meet a mistake that I wouldn’t have made already. Johann Wolfgang Goethe

There is no need to drag the mistakes of your youth with you into old age; Old age has its vices. Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Anyone who can do without love in old age did not love in his youth, for years are no obstacle to love. Jean Paul

Old wineskins cannot stand new wine, and an old heart cannot stand young feelings. Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov

Old age has its own beauty, spilling out not passions, not impulses, but pacifying, calming. Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

The weather is rainier in autumn, and people are more talkative in old age. Ivan Andreevich Krylov

I would boldly liken another walking old man to an hourglass. Kozma Prutkov

I can safely liken almost every wrinkled face to a pear taken from a compote. Kozma Prutkov

Sedateness is equally appropriate for a young man and a gray-haired old man. Kozma Prutkov

Do you want to know it, this grave guilt that you are unable to understand, which I am unable to explain to you? Here it is: you are youth; I am old age. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

...And senile love is more shameful. Grumpy senile fervor. Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev

There is only one way to keep old age from becoming a travesty of life, and that is to continue to pursue the goals that give meaning to existence: dedication to people, groups or causes, social, political, intellectual or creative work. Jefferson Davis

The young may die, the old must. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Old age holds possibilities no less than youth, but in different clothes. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In old age, love turns into a vice. Honore de Balzac

Indifference to the fair sex in old age is a punishment for being too good at pleasing in youth. Honore de Balzac

Just as a mirage appears to a traveler in the desert, so the memory of the past is the joy of old people. Pierre Jean Beranger

The eyes of young men glow with fire, but the eyes of old men emit light. Paul Verlaine

...The older you get, the sweeter and more necessary the sun seems to you; and when dying, a person asks to open the window so that the sun itself closes his eyes. Brothers Goncourt

When gaiety is mixed with wrinkles, it is charming. A certain halo illuminates joyful old age. Victor Marie Hugo

When you get old, you think more often about your youth. Alexandre Dumas (father)

That’s how it’s supposed to be: youth has fun, old age scolds. Alexandre Dumas (father)

The sad thing is not that old age is approaching, but that youth is leaving. Alexandre Dumas (son)

The evening of life brings with it its lamp. Joseph Joubert

The young man seeks happiness in the unexpected, the old man in the familiar. Paul Kurti

A wonderful thing is old age! You are surrounded by care, love, respect. But what a pity that this does not last long! Emile Ogier

The cup of life is beautiful! What stupidity it is to be indignant at her just because you see her bottom. Joseph Ernest Renan

Time flies faster the closer we get to old age. Etienne Pivert de Senancourt

Growing old is boring, but it is the only known way to live long. Charles Augustin de Sainte-Beuve

Happiness or unhappiness in old age is often nothing more than an extract of our past life. Charles Augustin de Sainte-Beuve

When you get old, habits become tyrants. Gustave Flaubert

One of the most beautiful advantages of intelligence is that it gives a person respect in old age. Stendhal

The fate of extreme old age in both sexes depends on how one’s youth was spent. Stendhal

To grow old means to get rid of fear of the past. Stefan Zweig

It is not the hundred-year-olds who are old, but those who are destined to die tomorrow. This lady is as old as the world if death is watching her on the street corner. Arthur Schnitzler

In youth a person learns, in old age he understands. Maria von Ebner-Eschenbach

Old age has its pleasures, no less than the pleasures of youth. Old age finds satisfaction in its own perfection. She threw off the shackles of selfishness. The soul, which has finally become free, rejoices at the fleeting moment, but does not pray for it to delay. William Somerset Maugham

The evening hours of life can be the most beautiful, just as the most beautiful petals of a flower are the last to bloom. Samuel Smiles

The tragedy of old age is not that a person grows old, but that he remains young at heart. Oscar Wilde

Old people by nature are rebels in the best sense of the word, and their demands are maximum. Old people are truly young! Gyula Iyesh

An integral part of old age is a kind of bifurcation. This harmless schizophrenia is the first benign symptom of the ripening of wisdom. And really, who do we consider wise? Someone who can see objectively. Including yourself, through the eyes of an outsider. The one who separates the sin from the one who committed it. And more than that: virtue comes from its bearer. Gyula Iyesh

The old man is physically an unpleasant embodiment of decrepitude; morally he is a blind and ruthless egoist, incapable of even being interested in anything other than himself; mentally he is a weakened and limited thinker, essentially woven from old mistakes and prejudices... Max Nordau

For a person who is over 60, I have one recipe: work hard and work even harder! Albert Schweitzer

Old age is a mountain that you have to climb, a peak from which the entire horizon of life opens... however, provided you are not blinded by snow drifts along the way... I am not afraid of old age, I am only afraid of the difficult ascent to it. Karin Michaelis

Moderation, caution, conservatism, the desire to avoid risk and sudden changes are often inevitable companions of old age. Jawaharlal Nehru

In essence, old age begins from the moment a person loses the ability to learn. Arturo Graf

A person ages not so much from his old age, but from the consciousness that he is old, that his time has passed, that all that remains is to live out his life... Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov

In old age, you begin to attach importance not so much to creativity, but to life. Edvard Grieg

When a person approaches the end of his life's journey, he sadly asks himself the question, is he destined to see those alluring horizons that lie ahead? His consolation is that young, strong people follow him, that old age and youth merge in continuous work to explore the truth. Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovsky

The years go by, but you don’t believe them. Estimates change, and the old man thinks that he thinks like a young man. Nikolai Mikhailovich Amosov

Old age is conservative, this is its main misfortune. Maksim Gorky

As you get older, your eyes move from your forehead to the back of your head: you begin to look back and see nothing ahead, that is, you live in memories, not hopes. Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky

Old age is for a person what dust is for a dress - it brings out all the stains of character. Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky

Yes, this is one of the great arts of being a wonderful old man, and perhaps in nothing is humanity expressed so fully as in a wise old man, whose heart is open to everything new, who welcomes the new generation, who passes on his experience to them... Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky

If you are old, then you know; if you are young, you will know; if you are old and don’t know, then I feel very sorry for you. Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky

Our old age is a disease that needs to be treated like any other. Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov

In our youth, we are very rich in life and willingly lend our wealth to everyone, but when in old age we go to collect debts, no one gives. And this is very disappointing. And this is why kind people are so rare: in old age, resentment prevents you from seeing goodness. Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin

To be able to endure your old age is a great heroism. Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin

In old age comes not only physical, but also mental farsightedness. Many previously forgotten feelings and events return and come to life. Galina Iosifovna Serebryakova

Let old wisdom guide young vigor and strength, let young vigor and strength support old wisdom. Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky

And why is it that in old age a person monitors his feelings and criticizes his actions? Why shouldn't he do this when he was young? Old age is already unbearable... In youth, all life passes without a trace, barely catching on the consciousness, but in old age, every slightest sensation sits like a nail in the head and raises a lot of questions. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The yoke of old age devastates the soul and reduces a person to the level of a biological species when he outlives himself, that is, he loses interest in the non-stop development of life, in the best aspirations of new generations... Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky

Old age is not a joy, but one must also experience it without losing one’s dignity, without falling into pitiful confusion, desperate embitterment, and even be able to take advantage of some of the advantages of this age with satisfaction. Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky

Of course, nature has its own laws, the body wears out and deteriorates; but I have met and known old people more than once, cheerful, daring, who have not lost the courage of their morning. Ilya Grigorievich Erenburg

...it is very difficult in the evening of life to remember, to understand its morning - the lighting changes, and the perception of what you see changes. Ilya Grigorievich Erenburg

The funniest thing about the love of old people is the desire to inspire love in them. Christian Nestel Bovey

Old people feel that their earthly calling has been fulfilled; It seems to them that everyone thinks this about them and reproaches them for taking up more space on earth; hence their distrust of everything around them, their envy of everything young; hence their love of solitude and uneven mood. Christian Nestel Bovey

The ladder of life is full of splinters, and most of all they bite when you slide down it. William Crary Brownell

When does a person discover that he has aged? When he stops living in hopes and lives only in memories. Frank Knight Zanders

Wrinkles should only mark the places where smiles used to be. Mark Twain

Maturity is often stupider than youth and even more often extremely unfair to it. Thomas Alva Edison

He who does not respect old age robs himself. Alexander Evdokimovich Korneychuk

Old age cannot be happiness. Old age can only be peace or disaster. She becomes at peace when she is respected. What makes her miserable is oblivion and loneliness. Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky

Know how to be lenient towards the human weaknesses of old people. Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky

Reasonable hygiene observed in adulthood is, apparently, the best remedy against the accelerated aging of our body. Francois Marie Bourliere

The years of youth drag on so slowly because they are full of events; the years of old age pass so quickly because they are predetermined. Albert Camus

When a person becomes wise and moral in old age, he is probably ashamed to remember his past actions that ran counter to the dictates of morality and wisdom. Too early or too late. There is no middle ground. Albert Camus

Growing old means moving from feeling to empathy. Albert Camus

Old age extinguishes passions, stops activities, drowns out all aspirations and gives you up as a sacrifice to a terrible enemy, which is called peace, but whose real name is boredom. Ernest Wilfried Legouwe

The art of aging is to be a support for the young, not an obstacle, a teacher, not a rival, understanding, not indifferent. Andre Maurois

Old age comes suddenly, like snow. In the morning you get up and see that everything is white. Jules Renard

There are so many old people, so many different types of old age. There is old age that is tolerable, and there is old age that is unbearable. Anatole France

Old people are stingy: there is a reasonable reason for this. They are afraid of any loss, not hoping to gain anything anymore. Anatole France

The hardships of old age are the same hardships of life, but only intensified. Anatole France

In old age, problems elude us, just as in youth. We are unable not only to resolve them, but also to keep them. Ludwig Wittgenstein

You just have to get old enough to get everything you're not entitled to. Elias Canetti

Wordy people are the first to age. Adjectives fade first, then verbs. Elias Canetti

Do not children become old people, and do not old people fall into childhood? Lev Karsavin

Proverbs and sayings about age

Proverbs and sayings about age are another section of ours. Perhaps, such proverbs are some of the most used, because we think about age very often. At first we are small and we are told about this (or we tell our children about it), then we grow up and gain experience, perhaps on the contrary, we are too flighty for such years. Then we grow old, and we ourselves acquire that same wisdom. Sayings such as “Youth left without saying goodbye, old age came without saying hello”, “Gray head, but young soul” acquire special meaning.

The young don't trust the old
The years have flown away like spring waters
The moon is young - it doesn't shine all night
Don't ask the old, ask the experienced
To amuse the young - to outweigh the old
Don't point your finger, you'll be an old man yourself
Know by the face how old a young man is
Old age is not joy
If there are old people, I would kill them, if there are no old people, I would buy them
An old horse won't ruin the furrow
Honor is not in a beard - even a goat has a beard
Young with toys, old with pillows
Gray hair in the beard, and a devil in the rib
Old and stubborn: neither to people, nor to us
Youth is not without stupidity, old age is not without stupidity
Gray head, but young soul
Young for service, old for advice
Not years are freaks, but people
On the old and infirmities fall
Gray hair does not spoil the beaver
Not old in years, but in spirit
You are old, but your soul is young
You can't train an old dog to a chain
Every bull was a calf
Gray hair, but no conscience
The oak is old, but the root is fresh
Don't point your finger - you'll be an old man yourself
And old, but a rooster, and young, but rotten
Youth is a bird, old age is a turtle
Old bones and potholes on the stove
Neither a young man, nor an old man in his old age
Old is small, and small is stupid
The beard is wide, but the soul is young
The old mill is not a slacker
Hammered dishes live for two centuries
Young - for battle, old - for thought
Old age is not reddened by years, but by deeds
As old as a dog, as small as a puppy
The old grows old and the young grows
Feed your grandfather on the stove: you yourself will be there
Youth with stronger shoulders, old age with your head
Even though he has a beard, he loves him like a young man
The beard grew but did not bring reason
Grandma ate her teeth, all that was left was her tongue and lips
The grave cures old age
Gray hair in the beard - mind in the head
You will be old, but never young
Young and early
And young, but frail, and old, but hefty
Young people will go crazy, but old people will not change
To teach the old - to treat the dead
Fetinya is old, but Fedot is sweet
The years have flown away like spring waters
Young - not ripe, old - overripe
Old age does not come with good things
Learn before the cartilage grows together
Every youth is full of playfulness
The tree only bends from its youth
Youth is not a sin, and old age is not laughter
Girls' thoughts are changeable
A century of tenacity - you will grow old
The young grows, the old hunches over
You can't drive an old wolf into a snare
The little one hides behind the old one, the old one hides behind the little one.
To lie to the old, to steal from the rich
The young crane flew high and sat low
The old one wants to sleep, and the young one wants to play
Old fools have no life for young people
The young die by choice, the old die without exception
A small bird is always young

One day, three old women were sitting on a bench near a nursing home. When a grandfather passed by, one of them said to him: “I bet we can accurately guess how old you are?” “You’ll never guess in your life, you old hens!” - answered the grandfather. “Easy,” said one of the grannies. - Just lower your trousers and underpants, and we can determine your age. The grandfather was embarrassed at first, but the desire to win the argument prevailed, and he lowered his pants. The old women asked him to turn around and jump several times. Then they calmed down and said: “You are 87 years old.” - Violent louse! How did you guess? The old women laughed and answered: “We were at your birthday party yesterday, you old sclerotic.”

THREE OLD MEN TALKING. FIRST: - I'M 82 YEARS OLD, I CAN'T PEE, IT TAKES ALL MORNING, PROBABLY STONES. SECOND: — I’M 85 I CAN’T POOPE, IT TAKES THE ENTIRE MORNING TO DO THIS, I’M PROBABLY CONSTIPATED. THIRD: - AND I’M ALREADY 87 AND I DON’T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS. I PEE AT EXACTLY 7 AM, I POOPE AT EXACTLY 7.30, AND I WAKE UP AT EXACTLY EIGHT!

You will never be old and wise if you have never been young and stupid...

He who is not foolish in his youth is not wise in his old age.

The tragedy of old age is not that a person grows old, but that he remains young at heart...

While there is a draft in your head and childhood in your ass, you don’t have to think about old age)))

I want to live with a man so that in 30 years he will look at me and say: “God. I love this grandma!”)))

It doesn’t matter how much malicious gossip is behind, It doesn’t matter how many wrinkles appear on the faces, After all, age is only noticeable when alone, Together, growing old is sometimes doubly easy)

- When desires go away, old age comes.

Old age wanders in the rags of pain, gnawing on a cracker with a toothless mouth. There is only fatigue from a gray life. He has been quietly waiting for death for a long time. He lovingly and reverently strokes Album with his wrinkled hand: “I’ve already lived in the world, that’s enough.” It's time to retire too! The son's grave is overgrown with weeds every spring. All prayers have been reread. She gets ready for bed, But the night greets her with cold insomnia every time. The severity of a hopeless life - A new wrinkle near the eyes. And he doesn’t ask for alms, He’s ashamed of his own country, And he takes things to the market to sell them at half price. And again, a poor beggar, She will return to her house. She will ask for mercy from God... - Grant us peace on the whole Earth! Gray Old Age on her knees - a reproach to silent history; Holy Old Age is on her knees, You are our pain and our shame!

You know what old age is. When the soul is still young. It’s just that there is some kind of fatigue in the body. And bones for the weather. It hurts sometimes... When waking up early in the morning. You will jump, running through the morning dew. But my legs seem to be filled with lead. And out of resentment, tears flow down my cheek. It seemed that he had raised children. And live only for yourself. But damn. But the strength is not the same... And the years go back faster and faster. There is only happiness that is close - nearby. A cure for illness and melancholy. There are children, grandchildren, that’s the reward. Where is the sonorous laughter of children - it makes you live.

Old age... She is so...

Old age... She is like that... A night light shines in the window... Thumbing through his memory, A gray-haired old man cried... Children and grandchildren have grown up... Great-grandchildren have grown up... These wrinkled hands have led so many in the darkness...

They saved so many people in trouble, without asking for anything in return... The medals were hidden in the closet. The house is an indifferent captivity... It seems that what is needed? There is warm food, loved ones nearby, a list of medications, water...

Only it seemed to him, Being young, That such old age would not get along with him... His guys from the front Dreamed of him... He was a brave soldier In the past, in that war...

He was not afraid of old age... Only withered over the years... As if he was the only one left Among the young, an old man... Time has silvered the old whiskey... It seems like he is here, with everyone... Why are they so far away

Close people have become... He is a boy at heart... But the floors of sadness - His heart is foggy... Youth rushes like a rocket... Children, affairs, family... Later in the window with light I will also cry...

Quotes from Marquez

Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin

I present to you a selection of quotes from the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez (1927 - 2014).

It so happens that most of his quotes in this collection are about love, relationships, women...

Quotes are summarized by topic: relationships, life ethics, love, women, people, life, death, about yourself, the USSR and Russia, happiness, literature, old age, madmen, war, the past, sex, loneliness, marriage, money, jealousy.

About relationships

Don't waste time on a person who doesn't want to spend it with you.

What a pity that we meet “the wrong ones” long before we meet the “those”...

If one day you want to cry, call me... I don't promise that I will make you laugh, but I will definitely cry with you... If one day you want to run away, don't be afraid... call me... I don't promise that I will ask you to stay... But I will run away together with you. If one day you don’t want to hear no one, call me... And I will be silent with you... But if one day you call... And I don’t answer, hurry to me! Probably at this moment I really, really need you...

A minute of reconciliation is worth more than bosom friendship.

Show your friends how important they are to you. If you don't say it today, tomorrow will be the same as yesterday. And if you never do, nothing will matter.

The trouble is that you can't stop me from thinking what I think.

He tried to drown his old pain in other people's broken hearts.

He climbed into her soul so ardently that, looking for benefit for himself, he found love, tried so hard to take possession of her heart that he fell in love himself.

Support the people close to you, whisper in their ears how much you need them, love them and treat them with care, take time to say: “I’m sorry”, “please forgive me” and “thank you”, and all those words of love that you know. No one will remember you for your thoughts.

Today may be the last time you see those you love. So don't wait for something, do it today, because if tomorrow never comes, you will regret the day when you didn't have time for one smile, one hug, one kiss, and when you were too busy to fulfill the last wish.

Answer him yes. Even if you die of fear, even if you repent later, because you will repent all your life if you answer him “no” now.

About life ethics

Always say what you feel and do what you think.

Don't let yourself die without experiencing this miracle - sleeping with the one you love.

I would sleep less, dream more, knowing that every minute with my eyes closed is a loss of sixty seconds of light.

I don't wear a hat so as not to take it off in front of anyone.

You need to listen to the voice of the child you once were and who still exists somewhere inside you. If we listen to the child within us, our eyes will regain their sparkle. If we do not lose contact with this child, our connection with life will not be severed.

Those who wait a long time can wait a little longer.

The only thing worse than bad health is bad fame.

One person has the right to look down on another only when he helps him up.

Never give an order unless you are sure it will be carried out.

About love

Love is an unnatural attraction of strangers to each other, dooming them to despotic and humiliating interdependence, which the stronger, the more ephemeral and meaningless.

The irresistible force that moves the world is not happy love, but unhappy love.

If you love something, let it go. If it's yours, it will come back.

If you meet your true love, then she will not get away from you - not in a week, not in a month, not in a year.

The heat of love becomes paradise only in bed.

The love of the soul is from the waist up and the love of the body is from the waist down.

The weak will never enter the kingdom of love, the laws in this kingdom are harsh, women give themselves only to brave and determined men, they promise them reliability, and this is what women need in life.

You can love at the dinner table just as you love in bed.

In adversity, love acquires greatness and nobility.

By the way, quotes about love

About women

If something involves a woman, I know everything will be fine. It is clear to me that women rule the world.

Women pay much more attention to the subtext than to the question itself.

The only thing women do not forgive is betrayal. If you immediately establish the rules of the game, whatever they are, women usually accept them. But they don’t tolerate it when the rules change during the game. In such cases they become ruthless.

She had the rare gift of not existing until she was needed.

In secret adventures, women behave exactly the same as men, the same tricks, the same sensual impulses, the same betrayals without a twinge of conscience.

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About a human

Nothing defines a person more than the way he dies.

A person is not born once and for all on the day when his mother gives birth to him, but life forces him again and again - many times - to be born again himself.

A person loves disposable things so much because he himself is disposable.

People live and wear the same names - and different, almost carnival, masks. Who can tell a hero from a traitor, or a whore from a saint?

Mistakes are human and define who we are. The unique property of a person to shift his mistakes onto others is a human property squared.

A person is not connected to the earth unless his dead body lies in it.

By the way, quotes about a person

About life

Life is not about the days that have passed, but about those that are remembered.

Life is just an endless series of lucky opportunities to survive.

The main thing in the life of society is to be able to cope with fear, the main thing in the life of spouses is to be able to cope with boredom.

There is no medicine that can cure what happiness can cure.

The memory of the heart destroys bad memories and exalts good ones, and it is thanks to this trick that we manage to bear the burden of the past.

Knowledge and wisdom come to us when they are no longer needed.

Great disasters have always produced great abundance. They make people want to live.

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About death

A person dies not when he should, but when he can.

Stay calm. Dying is harder than it seems.

Everyone imagines death in the form of a woman.

People who are loved should die along with all their belongings.

Since it was Sunday and the rain had almost stopped, I thought it would be a good idea to take a bouquet of roses to my grave.

He really visited the next world, but could not bear the loneliness and returned back.

About Me

I try to prevent unpleasant surprises. I prefer stairs to escalators. Anything goes to airplanes.

If for one moment God would forget that I am just a rag puppet and give me a piece of life, then I probably wouldn’t say everything I think, but I would definitely think what I say.

Having climbed to the top, I looked around and was horrified: there was no one around... The power of loneliness and the loneliness of power are the main themes of my novels, short stories and stories. Fate played a cruel joke on me: at the end of my life, I myself found myself locked up alone.

About the USSR and Russia

The USSR is 22,400,000 square kilometers without a single Coca-Cola advertisement!

I have always said and will never go back on my words that the most interesting people live in Russia.

Moscow, the largest village in the world, does not correspond to the proportions that people are accustomed to. Deprived of greenery, it is debilitating and depressing. Moscow buildings are the same Ukrainian houses, enlarged to titanic proportions.

Oh happiness

People want to live in the mountains, although real happiness for many lies in the process when we rise to a given height, gradually raising the bar higher.

Easily obtained happiness cannot last long.

He did, it seems, everything that was possible for her, with the exception of one thing: he forgot to ask whether all these efforts of his were capable of making her happy.

By the way, quotes about happiness

About literature

Literature is the best kind of entertainment, invented to mock people.

We are surrounded by extraordinary, fantastic things, and writers persistently tell us about unimportant, everyday events.

The day when people themselves begin to travel in first class, and books are carried in freight cars, the end of the world will come.

About old age

The secret to a peaceful old age is to enter into a dignified collusion with loneliness.

People are so wrong in thinking that when they grow old, they stop loving: on the contrary, they grow old because they stop loving.

A man knows when he begins to grow old, for it is then that he begins to resemble his father.

About madmen

No madman is mad if you listen to his arguments.

Quiet crazy people bring the future closer.

Children inherit their parents' madness.

About war

Why spend so many words to explain what a person feels in war if one word is enough - fear.

Why do you have to go to such an extreme as war over things that you can’t touch with your hands?

By the way, quotes about war

About the past

The past is a lie, there is no way back for memory, every past spring is irrevocable, and the craziest and most persistent love is just a fleeting feeling.

There is nothing more dangerous than a memory immortalized on paper.

About sex

Loveless sex is a consolation for those who have not been overtaken by love.

AIDS only adds risk to love. Love has always been very dangerous. It itself is a fatal disease.

About loneliness

I don't know anyone who doesn't feel lonely in one way or another.

There is nothing more similar to the loneliness of power than the loneliness of glory.

By the way, quotes about loneliness

About marriage

There is nothing more like hell than a happy marriage.

In family life it is much easier to avoid catastrophes than to avoid annoying petty trifles.

By the way, quotes about weddings and marriage

About money

Money is the devil's dung.

No, I'm not rich. I'm a poor man with money, but that's not the same thing.

By the way, quotes about money

About jealousy

Jealousy is like Swedish matches, only lit by its own box.

Jealousy knows more than truth.

About miscellaneous

There is no bad food for a good appetite.

Thoughts have no parent, they fly above us like angels.

You have to sell as if you were buying.

Inspiration comes only while working.

Curiosity is one of the many traps that love sets.

Human ingratitude knows no bounds.

The world was still so new that many things had no names and had to be pointed at.

There is no sadder place in the world than an empty bed.

The thirst for power only generates an unquenchable thirst for power.

Time does not move forward, but moves in a circle.

Things are also alive. You just need to be able to awaken their soul.

Marquez's prose managed to do a very difficult thing: to gain worldwide recognition, despite its Latin American specificity and even exoticism. And in Russia it is considered good form to be familiar with “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Nobody Writes to the Colonel.”

However, in my opinion, the magical realism characteristic of him did not find sufficient expression in the presented quotes.

Quotes about Marquez

M.V. Llosa: García Márquez is a great author whose works brought glory to the Spanish language.
L. Ospovat: In the Robinsonades of the past, loneliness was a decisive, but still external, circumstance. In García Márquez’s novel, loneliness is a congenital disease of the entire world order, a progressive illness that undermines the community of isolated individuals from within, gradually corroding the true essence of a person.
P. Weil: It’s a mystery how the author of such books could not see the “Bolivar” and the “patriarch” in Castro, not see anything in Cuba for so many decades. Having visited the USSR in 1957, the 29-year-old Colombian journalist of socialist beliefs, García Márquez, was able to see in a short time gigantism, uniformity, political prohibitions, and an inferiority complex in front of the West. That’s why this essay by the most popular author in the USSR was published only during perestroika. And in Cuba, which he knew perfectly well, he didn’t want to see anything. I didn’t want to free myself from the illusion.
V. Erofeev: The writer belongs to God. And God put incredible energy into Marquez! His books are like a living jungle - everything moved there, everything rose from its place. The eroticism of his works infected all literature - literature that was experiencing fatigue and entropy. Marquez became a new breath. He gave new heroes - a Latin American peasant, a Latin American whore - he staged an orgy, infecting his compatriots with a new feeling... and until the last moment he was absolutely brilliant.
J. Cortázar: Reading Marquez in the café then, I felt that this was new, that it gave a lot to both myself and Latin American prose. It was unusual and amazing! It would seem that there is nothing new for me - Indian, African-American epic, something from Kafka, something from Faulkner, from Hemingway... But - my own, original!

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