Robert Plant Quotes

I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

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.

If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.

Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.

I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can.

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

Do not cruise through red lights. Because if I'm coming the other way, I will run you down, for fun.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

People don't die of old age, they die of neglect.

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

I feel very very old. My hair hurts. I have buttocks all over my body and I can't even smoke properly any more. I don't have lungs, I just have two poppadoms in here.

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.