294 Quotes About Ageing


  • Author Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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    I looked at the group of human remains that languished in the corner and smiled at them. It occurred to me that their very presence was testimony to the moral emptiness of the universe and the mechanical brutality with which it destroys the parts it no longer needs.

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  • Author Richard Russo
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    Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed to see any of it coming.

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  • Author Ian McEwan
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    What I took to be the norm -- taut, smooth, supple -- was the transient special case of youth. To me, the old were a separate species, like sparrows or foxes.

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  • Author Shahla Khan
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    Ah, Love…what can I say?16 to 18 love is like butterflies, colorful and fluttering18 to 20 love is like roller coaster ride, bumpy and exciting20 to 23 love is like a lab experiment, fun but you need to have practical results in the end23 to 26 love is shopping, you want to keep trying until you find what fits exactly26 to 30 love is arrangement, you settle with the convenient and feasible optionsAfter 30, will tell you when I am there...

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  • Author Alan Bennett
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    Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quite sure what Late Style means except that it's some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up.

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  • Author Andrew Barker
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    Our existing system was based on an ageing infrastructure, and we were starting to encounter a number of performance problems, such as outages and incompatibility.

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