Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

Getting old is not for sissies.

I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer

Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

Old age is life's parody.

Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep in mind that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are not as well off.

I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still learning about how to deal with life's difficulties.

Few people know how to be old.

Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.

L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

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

Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.

It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.