““Faina,” her old friend asked, “do you think medicine is making progress?””
“- This doctor works miracles! “He literally cured all my illnesses in a minute,” Faina Georgievna remarked sarcastically after visiting the doctor.”
“Either I’m getting old and stupid, or the youth of today are like nothing else! - Ranevskaya complained. “Before, I simply didn’t know how to answer their questions, but now I don’t even understand what they’re asking.””
“Sometimes it seems to me that I am still alive only because I really want to live. Over the course of 53 years, I developed the habit of living in the world. My heart works sluggishly and constantly tries to stop serving me, but I order it: “Fight, damned one, and don’t you dare stop.””
“— When I retire, I will do absolutely nothing. The first months I will just sit in a rocking chair.”
“In old age, the main thing is a sense of dignity, and I was deprived of it.”
“I'm tired of pretending to be healthy”
“85 years with diabetes is not sugar.”
“Old age is just disgusting. I believe that it is ignorance of God when he allows people to live to old age. Lord, everyone has already left, but I still live. Birman died too, and I never expected this from her. It’s scary when you’re eighteen inside, when you admire beautiful music, poetry, painting, but it’s time for you, you haven’t managed to do anything, you’re just starting to live!”
“I’m like an old palm tree at a train station - no one needs it, but it’s a shame to throw it away”
“Sclerosis cannot be cured, but you can forget about it”
“- What is baldness?”
Translated from Russian · source: wisdomlib.ru