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

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

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

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

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

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older

Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.

The problem with aging is not that it’s one damn thing after another—it’s every damn thing, all at once, all the time.
You can’t stop aging. Gene therapies and replacement organs and plastic surgery give it a good fight. But it catches up with you anyway. Get a new lung, and your heart blows a valve. Get a new heart, and your liver swells up to the size of an inflatable kiddie pool. Change out your liver, a stroke gives you a whack. That’s aging’s trump card; they still can’t replace brains.

Time—the older you get the faster it goes.

When you're young you always feel that life hasn't yet begun...But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive.

At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you...the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early death.

Old age is not an accomplishment; it is just something that happens to you despite yourself, like falling downstairs.

But life takes sudden twists.

But we have soothed ourselves into imagining sudden change as something that happens outside the normal order of things. An accident, like a car crash. Or beyond our control, like a fatal illness. We do not conceive of sudden, radical, irrational change as built into the very fabric of existence. Yet it is.