quotes about Old Age
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
-- Al Sharpton -
My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
Old age is second childhood.
-- AristophanesSource : Nubes ( The Clouds), l.1417.
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Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age
-- Barbara Park -
I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
-- Bela Lugosi -
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
-- Carol Grace -
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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
-- Carrie Fisher -
Old age is perhaps life's decision about us ...
-- Christina SteadSource : Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.147, Head of Zeus
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It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.
-- David WeberSource : David Weber (2002). “Field of Dishonor”, p.27, Baen Books
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Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.
-- Diane de Poitiers -
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Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.
-- Doris GrumbachSource : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.9, Open Road Media
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Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
-- Emile M. CioranSource : "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
-- Emily Dickinson -
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We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.
-- Harold S. Kushner -
Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
-- Jacques BarzunSource : "Age of Reason". The New Yorker, (p. 103), October 22, 2007.
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There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.
-- Joyce KilmerSource : Joyce Kilmer (1911). “Summer of Love”
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After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.
-- Julio Cortazar -
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
-- Juvenal -
Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.
-- Karl Kraus -
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
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when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.
-- Martha AlbrandSource : Martha Albrand (1950). “Wait for the Dawn”
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When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.
-- Millicent Fenwick -
Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.
-- Nicole HollanderSource : Nicole Hollander (2007). “Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial”
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Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
-- Red Skelton -
Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.
-- Robert CollyerSource : Robert Collyer (1871). “The life that now is, sermons”, p.303
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How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!
-- Stanisław I Leszczyński -
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Old age is the harbor of all ills.
-- Wilfred BionSource : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Book 4: The Academy, 47, c. 200 A.D..
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We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.
-- Wilfred Bion -
Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
-- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley -
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We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.
-- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar