Sherwood Anderson Quotes

When you're at the wrong end of your 70s, everything is a challenge.

Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat.

It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.

I'm going to be 80, walking with a stick down the runway.

... an old man in a hurry.

My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.

Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.

When you get older, you've got to find some things differently because sometimes your body won't allow you do what you. When you're younger you can do a lot of stuff, moving around.

I do not want to be 36 years old and can hardly walk.

My weight blew up to 400 lbs and I couldn't bend down to tie my own shoelaces.

I don't want to hang around in a wheelchair in a nursing home. I don't. I don't want to be like that.

Our grandparents' generation prefers to watch film on TV rather than going to the theatre because of the simple reason that they are really old. Watching a film for, say, two hours at a stretch is difficult for them.

When I announced my retirement, that was actually when I was trying to come back and I realized, it just wasn't viable. It passed me by. My shoulder is done. I brush my teeth with my left hand now. That's just the way it goes. I can't shoot a basketball, I can't throw any kind of ball. I was right handed.

I think people underestimate when you have a brace on your knee how much that truly restricts you.

It's really tough when you have back injury because you cannot bend; you cannot react at the balls.

One of the worst things about ageing is the waning of your physical powers. I live in a house with 64 stairs, and I cannot run up and down them any more; my knee has conked out.

I was too big to even contemplate exercise. I had to use a walking stick and a wheelchair to get around.

... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.--There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass.

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

Valentine's Day is different for old people. At this age I receive chocolates in boxes shaped like artificial hearts.

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.

People don't die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.