Jonathan Swift Quotes

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Losing friends is the worst thing about getting older.

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

I wouldn't like to grow old alone.

I have wonderful friends. I'm not just a lonely old lady.

I've got more friends than I've ever had in my life at the age of 39 - although given that I didn't have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn't say much - because I found the internet.

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.

I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.

What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to.

Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]

Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody