Old Age Quotes
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
Simone de Beauvoir -
For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in which—by means of a sort of snapshot—we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it.
Marcel Proust
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
Lord Byron -
The only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of things as they are now when we compare them to things as they used to be.
Brad Warner -
Old age begins at the moment when a person has lost his ability to learn.
Arturo Graf -
Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.
Plutarch -
In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.
Victor Hugo -
Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
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The fires of youth are not dead in old age... only banked down.
Elizabeth Goudge -
Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.
George Vaillant -
Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
Simone de Beauvoir -
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
Thomas Hardy -
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Our old age is perhaps life’s decision about us - or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.
Christina Stead
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I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.
Elrey Borge Jeppesen -
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out traveled road.
Walt Whitman -
Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.
Walt Whitman -
In old age, she thought, how it all falls away. Your good opinion of yourself, all the virtues you had thought you had, your beauty, your wealth.
Elizabeth Goudge -
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis -
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
Muhammad Ali -
Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.
Simone de Beauvoir