“Old age is the harbor of all ills.”

“Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.”

“Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.”

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary… to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”

“Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.”

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

“Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.”

“At age 70 the guy towed 70 boats carrying 70 people across the Long Beach harbor, with both arms and feet shackled.”

“But I'm dying now and done for,
What on earth was all the fun for?
I am ill and old and terrified and tight.”

“The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth”