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“Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.”

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

“Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.”

Age Disease Old Age Odor

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.”

Age Disease Six Myth Disaster Old Age Useless Powerless Mindless

Author:Maggie Kuhn

“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

“Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.”

Age Travel Disease Old Age Recovery Fatigue Nun

Book:The Tale of Genji

Source: The Tale of Genji

“People don't die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable.”

People Age Dies Disease Old Age Accompany

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human.”

Ifs Men Years Humans Wells May Matter Age Born Human Beings Moral Imagine Progress Produce Disease Mass Hundred Labor Distance Sorry Cease Old Age Remove Gravity Agriculture Floats Rapids

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.”

Kind Age Strength Disease Aging Illness Disappointment Trials Old Age All Kinds Triumph Old People Elders Vicissitudes

Author:Maggie Kuhn

“I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.”

Thinking Way Age Next Talking Alive Violence Dying Disease Standing Accidents Old Age Breathing Bothered Standing There

Book:That Was Then, This Is Now

Source: That Was Then, This Is Now

“Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.”

Want Age Disease Old Age

Author:Orson Welles

“Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.”

Source: A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce

“Youth is a disease from which we all recover.”

Age Youth Disease Aging Old Age Birthday Old People Getting Old Getting Older Older People Funny Old Age Birthday Happy Birthday Youth And Old Age Age And Youth Funny Age Wise Birthday Youth Funny

Author:Dorothy Fuldheim