Aging Quotes
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But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.
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Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.
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I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
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Going to the moon was a fable. Resetting aging is a fable, but that's what we're setting out to do.
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If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.
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Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.
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As the technology is developed, autonomous driving could provide driving opportunities for the physically challenged or enable the elderly to continue driving longer. This will be vital as many nations experience an aging population.
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I would like to continue being radical. As you get older, some of the world catches up and it's passed you. In the '60s you were on the crest of a wave because you were part of the wave. I don't want be a stick in the mud and do the same thing as I did last year, I want to do something different and see what happens.
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Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.
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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.
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Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.
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The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.
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Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.
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Though I have many words, What woman's satisfied, I am no longer faint Because at her side? O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?
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I get all fired up about aging in America.
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If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.
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It's far different aging as a quarterback than aging as a tight end.
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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.
