"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease." ― Jean Paul Topic(s): Age More From Jean Paul "Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life." "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." "Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it." More In Age "Age for me is just a number."― Haile Gebrselassie "We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century."― Oriana Fallaci "We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it."― Frank A. Clark