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“At the end of your life you will probably end up in an old-age home, or in a back room in one of your children's houses, left only with a handful of fading memories and a body racked with great pain and suffering.”

Children Ends Home Body Age Pain Suffering House Left Memories Rooms Old Age Your Children Handful Fading Pain And Suffering

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.”

Mind Body Age Flower Aging Old Age

Author:Victor Hugo

“In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.”

Body Age Cities Darkness Brother Huge Clouds Old Age Dust Frail Overtaking

Author:Guru Gobind Singh

“Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.”

Body Age Loses Information Old Age Fluency

Book:The Stone Gods

Source: The Stone Gods

“Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.”

Wells Soul Body Age Difficult Pleasure Adventure Old Age Diminish Thoughts Of Death

Author:Andre Maurois

“We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.”

Body Age Church Youth Activity Old Age Repentance Compensation Farce Revelry

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.”

Body Age Known Youth Oneself Tyranny Old Age Dominant Threatened Insignificant Fulfilment Squalor

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]”

Body Hands Age Youth Old Age Sensual Worn Worn Out Intemperance Corpus

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.”

People Feels Body Age House Party Old Age Manners Good Man Guests Old People Good Manners Disheartened

Author:Barbara Walters

“The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.”

Ifs Way Firsts Soul Home Body Age Given Path Horse Old Age Pace Wiser Good Horse

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why.”

Looks Matter Body Eye Age Asks Grows Dying Disease Flesh Surrender Old Age Exhausted

Book:The Long Goodbye

Source: The Long Goodbye