294 Quotes About Ageing
- Author Barbara Pym
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Ageing, slightly mad and on the threshold of retirement, it was an uneasy combination and it was no wonder that people shied away from her or made only the most perfunctory remarks. It was difficult to imagine what her retirement would be like—impossibe and rather gruesome to speculate on it.
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- Author Dr. Deepak S. Hiwale
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When the dust settles, you will have known that it was always about ageing well, not just about how fit and strong you were when young... Step back, have a look and never lose sight of the bigger picture!
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- Author A.E. Housman
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The year might age, and cloudyThe lessening day might close,But air of other summersBreathed from beyond the snows,And I had hope of those.They came and were and are notAnd come no more anew;And all the years and seasonsThat ever can ensueMust now be worse and few.So here's an end of roamingOn eves when autumn nighs:The ear too fondly listensFor summer's parting sighs,And then the heart replies.
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- Author Ashton Applewhite
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Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate it—every time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover the signs of aging.
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- Author Nowelle Barnhoorn
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Wat als we inderdaad alle personen nog zijn die we ooit waren? De baby en de peuter, de kleuter en het schoolgaande kind. De puber en de jongvolwassene, wat als we dat óók allemaal nog zijn? Alles wat we toen deden, dachten, meemaakten? Dan betekent dat dat de tijd niet iets is wat buiten ons om gaat. Dat de tijd niet voorbijglijdt, niet door onze vingers glipt, maar dat wíj de tijd zijn. Hij zit in ons opgeslagen, we belichamen hem.
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- Author Osamu Tezuka
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Like an insect larva that repeatedly molts its skin as it develops, Ayako rapidly transformed from a young girl into a fully-grown woman.
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- Author Niccolò Machiavelli
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Men always praise antiquity and fault the present, although not always reasonably, and they are partisans of things past such that not only do they celebrate those ages that they know from what historians have preserved of them, but also those that as old men they recall having seen in their youth. And if this opinion of theirs is false, as it is most of the time, I am persuaded that there are various causes that lead them into this deception.
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- Author Crissy Moss
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He looked up at her. Age and worry had taken their toll on her frail body, but she was kind and beautiful. And for a moment, memories and thoughts swam to the surface, the world coming into utter clarity. And all of them revolved around Amanda, his wife of fifty years.
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- Author Karen Hitchcock
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If we are to welcome the elderly into our communities and support them to stay there for as long as possible, if we are to attend to the social needs of our elderly citizens both inside and out of institutions, then we need both government intervention and funding, along with the community's engagement and help.
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