550 Quotes About Old-age

  • Author Christopher Fowler
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    Look at this fog. The damp gets right into your bones. It's doing my chest no good at all. I'll need a vapour bath." Bryant pulled down his scarf and peered over the sodden hedge. Dew had formed on his bald head and ears. He resembled a minor Tolkien character. "You're getting old before your time," warned May. "I can't imagine what you'll look like in your eighties." "I'm ageing gracefully, which means not trying to look like a member of Concrete Blimp." "I assume you mean Led Zeppelin...

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  • Author Ірен Роздобудько
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    Брехня, що світ належить молодим! Це лише так здається перші тридцять років, доки ти летиш згори вниз, мов на авто, і нічого не встигаєш, бо немає коли натиснути на гальма. Летиш, в принципі, назустріч своїй старості.

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  • Author Ірен Роздобудько
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    Старість це «два в одному»: можна бути дитиною і дорослим водночас. Однією ногою стояти в колисці, іншою самі знаєте де…

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  • Author Peter S. Beagle
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    song of elli (old age)"What is plucked will grow again,What is slain lives on,What is stolen will remainWhat is gone is gone...What is sea-born dies on land,Soft is trod upon.What is given burns the hand -What is gone is gone...Here is there, and high is low;All may be undone.What is true, no two men know -What is gone is gone...Who has choices need not choose.We must, who have none.We can love but what we lose -What is gone is gone.

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