“You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.”
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“I hate thin people; 'Oh, does the tampon make me look fat?'”
“I now consider it a good day when I don't step on my boobs.”
“Why should a woman cook? So her husband can say 'My wife makes a delicious cake' to some hooker?”
“Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was”
“When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.”
“There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.”
“Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.”
“How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.”
“Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.”
Source: My Day: Three Pieces
“Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.”
Source: Moo
“A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.”
“Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.”
“Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.”
Source: Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel
“Grief is the price of victory.”
Source: DUNE
“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
“I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.”
Source: My works and days: a personal chronicle
Source: The diary of a young girl
“If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.”
“It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.”
“Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.”
“Life, the permission to know death.”
Source: Nightwood
“Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.”
Source: The evening colonnade
“No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.”
Source: Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors
“Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.”
Source: Titan: A Romance. From the German of Jean Paul Richter
“Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.”
“Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.”
“Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.”