193 Quotes About Elderly
- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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It’s not the specter of aging that haunts me. Rather, it’s the far greater fear of having aged and having nothing to show for the aging.
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- Author Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
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Ageing dims the natural sight of the elderly, it also sharpens their sight of insight; the youth is blind to this sight.
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- Author Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
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The way the elderly extol their good old days leaves the youth almost concluding that there were no rascals. The reality is the absurdity that they are the remnant of men who with impunity plunged humanity into the impurity of putridity and calamity.
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- Author Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
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The young and the elderly possess assets the other need. Youths have vitality and the aged have wisdom. The aged claim being young at heart while the young claim having old head on young shoulders.
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- Author Cephalus
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The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men's characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
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- Author Gerald Durrell
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Well, they're queer; but they're all very old, and so they're bound to be. But they're not mental,' explained Mother; adding candidly, 'Anyway, not enough to be put away.
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- Author Marilynne Robinson
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Glory went to look in on her father. He lay on his right side, his face composed, intent on sleep. His hair had been brushed into a soft white cloud, like harmless aspiration, like a mist given off by the endless work of dreaming.
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- Author Andrey Kurkov
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[С]тарикам обычно доверяют намного больше, чем молодым. Их слушают внимательно, как свидетелей истории. Старики, жившие в эпоху Сталина, являются доказательством существования Сталина. Их слушают, открыв рот.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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Youthful exuberance is splendid.
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