Quotes about Old age

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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 l — Simone de Beauvoir, La Vieillesse
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old. — Jules Renard
The Little Boy and the Old ManSaid the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."Said the old man, "I do that too."The lit — Shel Silverstein
There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. — P.G. Wodehouse
I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose. — Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, exciteme — Amit Kalantri
Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingl — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
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 ge — Patrick White, Three Uneasy Pieces
When we are young we squander time as though it were unlimited; When we grow older, then like beggars we wish for crumbs — Nanette L. Avery
Through wisdom your days will be many, and years will be added to your life…By wisdom a house is built, by understanding — King Solomon
In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; b — Edward Carpenter, The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women
Hope is sweet.Hope is illumining.Hope is fulfilling.Hope can be everlasting.Therefore, do not give up hope,Even in the s — Sri Chinmoy, My Life's Soul-Journey: Daily Meditations for Ever-Increasing Spiritual Fulfillment
Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents — Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. — Herbert Hoover
When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace — Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
DisciplineI am old and I have hadmore than my share of good and bad.I've had love and sorrow, seen sudden deathand been — Meryl Gordon
When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is — Dan Simmons, Drood
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 t — Edward Gorey, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer
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