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“Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.”

“How young can you die of old age?”

Humor Age Funny Young Dies Comedy Old Age Birthday

Author:Steven Wright

“While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.”

Said Age Wanted Dies Bed Old Age Making Love Elephants Wanted To Die

Author:Roger Zelazny

“Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.”

Age Waiting Attitude Old Age Purple Eccentric God Never Blinks Valuable Life Lessons Important Life Lessons

Book:Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness

Source: Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness

“Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]”

Giving Self Moments Age Loss Deals Passing Passings Old Age Isolation Decay Suspension Swiftness Passing Moments

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.”

Knows Writing Would Be Age Lying Memories Chance Gone Late Sentences Old Age Fluency Single Sentence Yeats Impertinence

Author:Samuel Beckett

“I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.”

Age Grows Aging Bottom Old Age Growing Older Trousers

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”

“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”

Said Use Age Desire Fear Chance Behinds Accepting Gone Deeds Bars Old Age Recalls Cages

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.”

Years Humans Moments Age Lasts Desire Night Passion Born Human Beings Silence Childhood Listening Old Age Uncertain Lifelong Momentary Flux

Author:C. S. Lewis

“For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in which—by means of a sort of snapshot—we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it.”

Knows Way Giving Years Mean Age Moving Universe Effects Youth Fame Fortune Contrary Old Age Thrones Transitory Snapshots

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

Source: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)

“It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.”

Ideas Age Meditation Bird Old Age Love Life Feathers Nocturnal

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.”

People Mean Eye Age Strong Clear Sticks Silly Old Age Fancy Limbs Forgetfulness Mirth Spectacles Painless Strength And Beauty Clear Eyes

Book:MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest

Source: MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest

“My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.”

Ifs Mean Persons Age Desire Values Subjects Son Old Age Hills Enlightened My Son Jewels Propose Discretion Kicking

Book:The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy

“No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt”

Years Age Wanted Past Games Fun Hurt Needed Walking Suicide Greed Boring Old Age Bombs Relax Swimming Greedy Hunters Gonzo Suicide Note Years Past

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!”

“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

“The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”

Years Home Age Sun Journey Moon Eternity Horse Old Age Boat Wander Each Day Climbing Traveler Drifting Moon And Sun

Author:Matsuo Basho

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.”

People Doe Soul Helping Age Spiritual Moving Spirituality Practice Ego Old Age Identifying Spiritual Practice Ego And Soul

Author:Ram Dass

“You are never too old to become younger!”

Age Youth Humorous Aging Witty Old Age Maturity Sarcastic Paradox Old People Youthfulness Age And Youth Staying Young

Author:Mae West

“Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.”

Ifs Age Faces Can Do Worst Comfort Aspect Ill Old Age Iron Layers Stubborn Elders Spoil Kate Fright

Book:Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

“There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.”

Ifs Giving Ends Age Existence Goes On Solutions Absurd Old Age Former Parody Former Life

Book:La vieillesse

Source: La vieillesse

“You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.”

“You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.”

People Men Trying Stills Done Might Age Dies Turns Given Men And Women Good Things Old Age Teens

Author:Stephen King

“Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.”

“My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.”

Men Said Age Faces Enemy Teacher Lifetime Seven Greed Hunger Betrayal Envy Every Man Old Age Sickness

Author:Osamu Tezuka

“In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, "You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it.”

Said Age Given Wings Old Age Evening Beloved Companion Wings To Fly

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.”

Years Stills Age Memories Youth Active Impression Old Age Callous

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.”

Mind Age Courses Waiting Failing Suicide Burden Old Age Pointing Advocating

Author:Amy Sedaris

“On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.”

Men Humans Children Age Earth Young Born Chance Perfect Half Accepting Hair Strikes Stealing Old Age Young Man Guarantees Necks Contracts Lightning Fists Oath Stood Up Paychecks Old Time

Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosohpically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation.”

Source: Edith Wharton The Dover Reader

“It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.”

Age Died Old Age Grudge

Book:Field of Dishonor

Source: Field of Dishonor

“Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”

Ends Eye Lasts Stage Strange Taste Scene Mere Teeth Old Age Oblivion You Like It Childishness Stage Acting

Author:William Shakespeare

“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.”

Children Age Inspiring Creativity Masters Old Age Acquire

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.”

“Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium.”

Years Firsts Children Eye Age Lying Born White Youth Hair Lovers Husband Mouths Years Ago Terror Old Age Staring Necks Sixty Pillow Delirium White Hair

Author:Philip Larkin

“Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age”

Sometimes Age Old Age

Author:Barbara Park

“Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.”

Age Youth Needed Tragedy Old Age Vigorous Carols

Book:Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott

Source: Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott

“Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”

Ifs Inspirational Firsts Doe Wisdom Age Wine Aging Old Age Old People Grapes Wrinkles Abby Age And Wisdom Age Wisdom Aging And Wisdom

Author:Abigail Van Buren

“We recived our colouring from the Norsemen,hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees.We are the ones who sacked Rome.Fear only feeble old age and death in bed.Don't forget who you are.”

Age Forget Pieces Tree Bed Who You Are Flesh Old Age Rome Hung Savages Hacked

Author:Janet Fitch

“A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.”

Ifs Men Age Vices Old Age Expensive Redeemed

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

“I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all.”

People Thinking Feels Trying Years Wells I Can Age Past Used Can Do Novel Written Lucky Approach Pages Old Age

Author:Alice Munro

“When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

Knows Men Needs Age Earth Generations Waste Old Age Midst Woe This Generation Truth And Beauty

Author:John Keats

“Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a crotch-level view of the guests. Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.”

“There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.”

Age Three Old Age Farms Farmers Lightning Rolling Farming Three Things Tractors Farming And Farmers Rolling Over Rolling Up Rolling Along

Author:Bill Bryson

“We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married, and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading for: the old are innocent children innocent of thier old age. In that sense, man's world is the planet of inexperience.”

Knows Men World Children Age Born Knowing Childhood Youth Planets Married Innocent Old Age One Time New Life Being Married Headings Inexperience Innocent Children

Author:Milan Kundera

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