550 Quotes About Old-age
- Author Dan Groat
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A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature’s demolition team comes in.
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- Author Theodor Kallifatides
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Sometimes I think the point of old age is to be embarrassed about one’s youth.
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- Author Karen Karbo
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Old age. I don't know when it really starts, and I'm not interested in finding out. Julia pretty much ignored the whole thing, and that may be the only real lesson there is for the end of our days. Just pretend like it isn't happening, until you have no choice but to accept reality. If you're lucky, like Julia, you'll die peacefully in your sleep after having enjoyed a dinner of onion soup.
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- Author Frank O'Hara
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we are all happy and young and toothlessit is the same as old agethe only thing to do is simply continueis that simpleyes, it is simple because it is the only thing to docan you do ityes, you can because it is the only thing to do
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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With old age comes the risk of demotion to childhood.
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- Author Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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the real essence of our lifetime lies in the time of our lives
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- Author Luigina Sgarro
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The advantage when you have never really been young is that you cannot really get old.
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- Author Leon Trotsky
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
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- Author Bill Holm
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How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.
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