Philip Roth Quotes

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

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

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

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.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

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

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

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

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

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.

All diseases run into one, old age.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

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.

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

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

The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.

Old age is a shipwreck.

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

Aging is a synonym for living.