“… a man never or hardly ever does grow sad as he grows old; on the contrary, the most melancholy young lovers can be found forty years afterwards chuckling over their port wine.”

G.K. Chesterton, Introduction

“… old age was ugly and youth beautiful.”

Peter Matthiessen, At Play in the Fields of the Lord

“… strength of character is not a matter of age.”

Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi – Book One: The Way of the Samurai

“No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.”

Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”

Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Why do they have to grow sick and weak?”

Virginia Hamilton, The House of Dies Drear

“A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“… one of the few joys of aging is learning to be less afraid of complexity.”

Dwight Atkinson, Contrasting Rhetorics / Contrasting Cultures

“Emotions are for the young; the elderly have no use for them.”

Anita Nair, Ladies Coupe