Old Man Quotes

“I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw...”
― Roald Dahl

“It is He who makes the lightning flash upon you, inspiring you with fear and hope, and gathers up the heavy clouds. The thunder sounds His praises, and the angels, too, in awe of him. He hurls his thunderbolts at whom He pleases. Yet the unbelievers wrangle about God.”
― Anonymous, القرآن الكريم

“A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.

If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.

Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child.

And time sings.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it.
Maybe that's what these pages of words are about:
Bringing the world to the window.”
― Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe

“She looked at his face. So old and wrinkled. So beautiful and just right.”
― R.J. Lawrence, The Xactilias Project

“Old man with a young mind is much younger than the young man with an old mind!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“After the wink, his head moved down and his eyes made a beeline to my chest. Ugh. The old man felt me up with his eyes. Men really are all just alike—no matter the age. He was a flirtatious old fossil.”
― Rose Pressey, Flip That Haunted House

“He looked ninety years old for thirty years and then he got the notion that he would die, and did so.”
― Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

“... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Sonny shows me his phone. It’s a text message from Rapid, sent this morning, and it consists of one simple-but-not-so-simple question: Wanna meet up? My mouth drops. “Seriously?” “Seriously,” Sonny says. “Holy shit.”

There’s one problem though. “Why haven’t you responded?” “I don’t know,” he says. “Part of me is like, hell yeah. The other part feels like this shit is too good to be true. What if he’s really a fifty-year-old man who lives in his mom’s basement and has a malicious plot to murder me and leave my body parts spread out across his backyard, unknown to anyone, until twenty years from now when a stray dog sniffs me out?” I stare at him.
“The specifics in your examples are disturbing sometimes.”
― Angie Thomas, On the Come Up

“Men will always be at battle,” the little girl said with an uncanny maturity. With her stride unbroken, she continued “Whether that battle is on a battlefield like this one, or on the most difficult battlefield of the heart and mind. It really doesn’t matter all that much, men will battle.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“How did I get to be this old and still have to put up with so much crap?”
― T.W. Lawless, Furey's War

“Her erkeğin, bu arada babamın da, mutluluğu yakalamak için yanlış yollara da sapmaya hakkı olduğunu ancak saçlarıma aklar düştüğü zaman anladım. Ancak o zaman onun yanlışlarına saygı duymaya başladım. Senin de benim yanlışlarıma benzer saygıyı duymanı dilerim oğlum. Senin de kimi zamanlar böyle yanlışlara düşmeni dilerim. Ve umarım sen de acımasızlık noktasına varana dek seversin ve dilerim sen de yaşamın soylu çekiciliklerini uzun süre algılayabilesin.”
― Amin Maalouf, Leo Africanus

“In life, growth is imminent. And, growth without change, is unthinkable. And, to make the unthinkable thinkable, new roads need to be carved out by way of old ones. The old stands tall and firm and befriends the new to fall into place, with refined maturity and greater understanding and cultured admiration. It's simply pure Magic.”
― Sandeep N. Tripathi

“So, this is retirement? This feeling of emptiness?”
― Zidrou & Aimée de Jongh, L'obsolescence programmée de nos sentiments

“Testosterone Autism: The person beset by this ailment....develops an interest in various tools and machinery, and he's drawn to the Second World War and the biographies of famous people, mainly politicians and villains.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“...a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and
butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and
hands are like theirs.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Now, it’s time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that’s gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin’ a lie to his son from his death bed. What’s the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?”
― Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“If you say, ‘Now I look like an old man’, you will start to look like an old man. If you say, ‘No, I look like a young man now’, you will start to look like a young man. What you project is what you will see. Soul is the form of projection and if false projections are done, the worldly life is created! If you come to a state free of false belief (wrong projection), You will be in the state of the ‘Real form of the Self’ (mood swaroop).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“His body was shriveled like a leaf that has left its tree and that has been curled by time about its natural lines.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan

“Old age is not the flue,
Not something you get over”
― Richard L. Ratliff

“There’s something vulnerable about the human condition, where people can transmute into something so astonishingly altered that whatever is left is wholly unrecognizable.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“So what happens when proovs get old?" he asks, as if the subject is close to his heart. "They age gracefully," Lanaya says with a smile. "That's the best we can do.”
― Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe

“It’s not the absence of good. It’s being brave enough to oppose the presence of evil.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Hey, now, old man. Chill your calcium-deprived bones and stop treating her like crap, or I’ll have to kick your ass.”
― L.J. Shen, Scandalous

“...I am an old man, and most people hate me. But I don't like them either...”
― Frank Capra, "It's a Wonderful Life" the screenplay

“A comfortable old age without health is poverty.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Just because you're old doesn't mean you've matured.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov