Getting Old Quotes

In the seven years or so that had passed since I had last seen him, Sir Magnus Donners had grown not so much older in appearance, as less like a human being.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep.

Life is so short, transient, and beautiful that there is not enough time to get old.

Debasish Mridha

So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.