294 Quotes About Ageing
- Author Jane Yolen
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Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the truth.
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- Author Robin Sloan
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But when people are past a certain age, you sort if stop asking them why they do things. It feels dangerous. What if you say So, Mr Penumbra, why do you want to know about Mr Tyndall's coat buttons? And he pauses, and scratches his chin, and there's an uncomfortable silence-- and we both realize he can't remember?
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- Author Tom Cardamone
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Ageing must be like wearing a heavy, itchy suit.
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- Author Aporva Kala
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Comparisons are inevitable, her face resembles her, he is like him and this old man is like that old man. This is taking things too far.All old men and women are alike. Ageing makes no discrimination between the beauty and the ugly.
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- Author J.M. Coetzee
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An unseemly business, sitting in the dark spying on a girl (unbidden the word letching comes to him). Yet the old men whose company he seems to be on the point of joining, the tramps and drifters with their stained raincoats and cracked false teeth and hairy earholes – all of them were once upon a time children of God, with straight limbs and clear eyes. Can they be blamed for clinging to the last to their place at the sweet banquet of the senses?
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- Author richard brautigan
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...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed.
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- Author Stephen Colbert
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A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?
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- Author Colleen McCullough
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Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.
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- Author Eman Herzallah
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بومة عجوز تدلف متثاقلة لقفص وهي تشعر بالعيون تحملق فيها
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