550 Quotes About Old-age
- Author Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme
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Old age is a state of mind and a function of mass hypnosis rather than an absolute.
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- Author Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme
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One thing that separates us Senior Citizens from the Juniors is learning how to suffer," Paul noted. "It's a skill, just like learning to write.
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- Author Frank Bidart
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Old, he includedhimself in his scorn for those whoyoung want the opposite of this earththen settlefor more of it.
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- Author Lance Olsen
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I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books.
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- Author Rachel Autumn Deering
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The cancer set into her bones and whittled her down to nothing. The weariness of the world and the weight in her heart laid her to rest in January.
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- Author Sebastian Barry
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Grizzled old bastard like him don’t go providing death-bed transformations.
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- Author T.S. Eliot
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Do not let me hearOf the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.
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- Author Jean Guéhenno
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Getting old always means a hardening of the main trait of one's character.
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- Author Kate Morton
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Our hands meet for an instant and she withdraws quickly, frightened she might catch something. Old age perhaps.
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