Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes About Old Age

Quotes about: Old Age

• I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I can only answer "We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery."

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Discovery, People, Age

• Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Eye, Mirrors, Flames

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.21, Knopf

• The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Gay, Bravery, Balance

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.23, Knopf

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