“No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.”
“One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.”
“Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy.”
“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
“Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.”
“In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. ”