Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

Nobody stays young forever.

I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.

I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!