Jean Paul Quotes

Old age is a shipwreck.

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

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

Getting older is hard.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

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

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Talking about the body getting old, there's a sadness to it in a way.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

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

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

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