#2,413

After a certain age we should not look at each other except in dim light.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 389

#1,916

What we discover as we age is not the vanity of everything, but of almost everything.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 313

#1,432

There are no more old people, only decrepit youths.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 242

#1,127

Whoever fights against the process of aging merely ages without ever maturing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 198

#996

Modern society is proceeding simultaneously to become inhospitable to the old and to multiply their number by prolonging their lives.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 179

#987

Whoever does not get a head start on his old age does not prolong his youth, but corrupts even his memories.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 178

#902

As those things which age does not ennoble are as rare as men whom age does ennoble, the modern world destroys old things and prolongs man’s senility.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 164

#825

The distance between young and old is the same today as it has always been.
Today people speak of the generation “gap” because today’s adult refuses to become old and the youth, with all due disrespect, assures him that he is old.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 151

#621

In vain does the old man adopt the opinions of a young man to make others doubt his old age.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 115

#442

The imbecile does not discover the radical misery of our condition except when he is sick, poor, or old.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 88

#271

To age with dignity is the task of every moment.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 62

#175

To attribute to old age the dregs accumulated throughout life is the consolation of the old.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 49

#173

Aging is a catastrophe of the body which our cowardice turns into a catastrophe of the soul.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 48