Old Age Quotes
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Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Sophocles -
The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
Oscar Wilde
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
Victor Hugo -
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
Marilyn Monroe -
Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.
Rita Hayworth -
Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.
Malcolm Cowley -
No lie ever reaches old age.
Sophocles
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
Victor Hugo -
Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
Honore de Balzac -
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky -
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.
Lord Byron -
Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Old age is the harbor of all ills.
Bion of Borysthenes -
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
Gerald Brenan -
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Judith Viorst -
By not dealing with past human rights violations, we are not simply protecting the perpetrators' trivial old age ; we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
Antjie Krog
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It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
Israel Horovitz -
Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.
Albert Outler -
See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.
J. P. Donleavy -
Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.
Josephine Hart