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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

Simone De Beauvoir Ageing Inifinity Life Old Age

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks Death Judgement Life Old Age

It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.

~ Jules Renard

Jules Renard Aging Gracefully Inspirational Living Old Age

There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

P.g. Wodehouse French Grey Hair Guillotine Humor Old Age

Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals.

~ Amit Kalantri

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Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

~ Christopher Hitchens

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I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.

~ Patrick White

Patrick White Disbelief False Teeth Farting Myths Old Age Senility Wisdom Youth

When we are young we squander time as though it were unlimited; When we grow older, then like beggars we wish for crumbs of remembrance...

~ Nanette L. Avery

Nanette L. Avery Elder Old Age Point Of View Time Passing Time Quotes Wisdom Young Youthful

In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this peculiarity, that while scores and scores of his male figures are obviously suffused and inspired by a romantic sentiment, there is hardly one of his female figures that is so,—the latter being mostly representative of woman in her part as mother, or sufferer, or prophetess or poetess, or in old age, or in any aspect of strength or tenderness, except that which associates itself especially with romantic love. Yet the cleanliness and dignity of Michel Angelo's male figures are incontestable, and bear striking witness to that nobility of the sentiment in him, which we have already seen illustrated in his sonnets.

~ Edward Carpenter

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Hope is sweet.Hope is illumining.Hope is fulfilling.Hope can be everlasting.Therefore, do not give up hope,Even in the sunset of your life.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Sri Chinmoy Hope Old Age

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

~ Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover Age Death Fighting Old Age War Youth

DisciplineI am old and I have hadmore than my share of good and bad.I've had love and sorrow, seen sudden deathand been left alone and of love bereft.I thought I would never love againand I thought my life was grief and pain.The edge between life and death was thin, but then I discovered discipline.I learned to smile when I felt sad, I learned to take the good and the bad, I learned to care a great deal morefor the world about me than before.I began to forget the Me and Iand joined in life as it rolled by: this may not mean sheer ecstasybut is better by far than I and Me.

~ Meryl Gordon

Meryl Gordon Death Discipline Life Love Old Age

When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in exchange for stacks of paper with scratches and squiggles on them. And when Death calls, how many of us would trade all those pages, all that squandered lifetime-worth of painfully achieved scratches and squiggles, for just one more day, one more fully lived and experienced day? And what price would we writers pay for that one extra day spent with those we ignored while we were locked away scratching and squiggling in our arrogant years of solipsistic isolation?Would we trade all those pages for a single hour? Or all of our books for one real minute?

~ Dan Simmons

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I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight; I have been labouring under the delusion they were about five and six. And yesterday I happened to notice in the mirror that while I have long since grown used to my beard being very grey indeed, I was not prepared to discover that my eyebrows are becoming noticeably shaggy. I feel the tomb is just around the corner. And there are all these books I haven't read yet, even if I am simultaneously reading at least twenty...

~ Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey Ageing Aging Death Old Age Reading

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

~ Mark Doty

Mark Doty Breath Death Dying Kiss Life Old Age

Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age, it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep

~ W.b. Yeats

W.b. Yeats Books Old Age Poetry Reading

Old age doth in sharp pains abound;We are belabored by the gout,Our blindness is a dark profound,Our deafness each one laughs about.Then reason's light with falling rayDoth but a trembling flicker cast.Honor to age, ye children pay!Alas! my fifty years are past!

~ Pierre-Jean De Béranger

Pierre-Jean De Béranger Age Blindness Deafness Honor Old Age Pain Poetry Reason

One of the first steps to successful leadership is to always forget your age and remember your dream regularly.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

~ Aristotle

Aristotle Adversity Education Learning Old Age Prosperity

I wept for relationships not possible due to denial and dreams locked in the back of people’s minds, all of the bits of life that lay dormant until the babblings of televisions and nursing homes sweep them away. It makes me wonder how many of the dreams we had originally have already been forgotten.

~ Christopher Hawke

Christopher Hawke Denial Dreams Old Age Relationships

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.

~ Lance Olsen

Lance Olsen Books Death Lance Olsen Love Old Age Partners Relationships Theories Of Forgetting

Angelina said, Mom. I don't want you to die. That's the whole thing. You took from me the ability to care for you in your old age, and I wanted to be with you when you died, when you die. Mom. I wanted that.

~ Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout Daughter Death Dying Love Mother Old Age Relationships

Life teaches us two important things - we are careless when we are young and by the time we get old, it is too late to be careful!!

~ Uma Shanker

Uma Shanker Care Life Life Lessons Old Age Values Youth

I just wish moments weren’t so fleeting!' Isaac called to the man on the roof, 'They pass so quickly!' 'Fleeting?!' responded the tilling man, 'Moments? They pass quickly?! . . . Why, once a man is finished growing, he still has twenty years of youth. After that, he has twenty years of middle age. Then, unless misfortune strikes, nature gives him twenty thoughtful years of old age. Why do you call that quickly?' And with that, the tilling man wiped his sweaty brow and continued tilling; and the dejected Isaac continued wandering. 'Stupid fool!' Isaac muttered quietly to himself as soon as he was far enough away not to be heard.

~ Roman Payne

Roman Payne Dialogue Fable Growing Old Hope And Despair Middle Age Old Age Passage Of Time Payne Roman Time Youth

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.

~ T.s. Eliot

T.s. Eliot Fear Old Age

When you are a child at home alone, you’re afraid someone might come; when you are old and at home alone, you’re afraid no one will come.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

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I would die for you, my love—in old age.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

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I wrapped my hands around the familiar cup and tried to draw strength from it. It was from Thea's old Moss Rose set, remnant of careful scrimping and saving in her first year of marriage. Yet the mellow old cup now brought me no comfort, only a feeling of helplessness, of time slipping away. Sunday-best dishes gone to everyday and now to mismatched pieces. Like Thea and me

~ Lorena Mccourtney

Lorena Mccourtney Death Friendship Old Age

People think I am younger then I really am,because I act so immature.

~ James Hauenstein

James Hauenstein Humor Humorous Humorous Quotes Maturity Maturity Quotes Maturity Vs Age Old Old Age Older Older People People People Quotes

All this occupied his thoughts when he revisited the places of his war. Tramping over soil fed by the blood of men he had led and whose faces now stirred in his memory, it was his wife's response that came - as if in compensation for too little said before - when he wondered why his wandering had led him back to these old battlefields: in his sixty-ninth year he was establishing his survivor's status.

~ William Trevor

William Trevor Old Age Survivor War

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Some people do not really hate aging, they merely love the colour black.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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