Emil Cioran Quotes

Old age is life's parody.

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

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.

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

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.

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

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.

The old are in a second childhood.

... 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.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

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.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

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

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.

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