“it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things...”

“Old people, with other old people, are not so old.”

“The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.”

“A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

“He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.”

“Let's forget about each other forever," she told him. "we're too old for this sort of thing now.”