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“You cannot really stop aging. You can only delay or hide some of its effects.”

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“You get to a point where even the bad time flies.”

Age Time Weltschmerz

Book:Layman's Report

Source: Layman's Report

“He did not like old people, and resented it when he was invited to meet only persons of his own age, and the young he found vapid.”

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Book:The Razor’s Edge

Source: The Razor’s Edge

“We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; and to take a cue from the dolorous old naval ballad, we have heard the mer-maidens singing, and know that we shall never see dry land any more. Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. If there is a fill of tobacco among the crew, for God's sake pass it round, and let us have a pipe before we go!”

Life Age Death Sea Land Danger Youth Comfort Ship Mermaids

Book:Virginibus Puerisque

Source: Virginibus Puerisque

“You're never to old to be young”

Age Youth Who We Are

Book:The Unfinished Book About Who We Are

Source: The Unfinished Book About Who We Are

“The piscean age was and is about believing. The Aquarian age is about knowing. We have a choice between being foolishly misguided and wisely fed.”

Wisdom Age Ignorance Aquarius End Of Days Pisces

Author:T.F. Hodge

“She gave it a shot' was how she planned to euphemize the five-year detour: to her therapist, to curious friends, to herself. Had she been younger, there would have been wailing for the lost years, but by now she knew that all things were necessary and vital in life's convoluted scaffolding.”

Age Experience Resignation

Book:The Quiet Ones

Source: The Quiet Ones

“I was "older" in my head than some people twice my age. But the stupid government mandated an arbitrary measure, days on this earth, to account for ability or maturity.”

Age Ability Maturity

Book:Irish Kiss

Source: Irish Kiss

“Quando se fica velha a memória não é muito boa. - Ela suspirou. - Não é tão ruim esquecer coisas pequenas, é quando não se sabe o que entristece mais, se o outono, porque faz a gente se lembrar de si mesma, ou a primavera, porque se aproveita menos dela do que antes. A coisa mais triste na velhice é talvez não ser mais capaz de tolices. Tradução de Clarice Lispector”

Life Age Translation

Book:Epitaph For An Enemy

Source: Epitaph For An Enemy

“Yes. That's why it's so hard to look in a mirror. You are looking at yourself, but you don't recognize yourself. It's a shock. The person you see is older, and heavier, and has wrinkles. But you don't feel that way inside, and it's hard to believe that's how you really look now, how other people see you.”

Book:Going All the Way

Source: Going All the Way

“The problem with getting old and sick is that you learn that government systems that you thought would protect you actually fail you.”

Philosophy Problem Government Age Psychology Protect Sick Learn Fail Old

Author:Steven Magee