Aging Quotes - Page 13

• The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.

  Mitch Albom

  Wise, Children, Men

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• Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

  Dave Barry

  Birthday, People, Age

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Song, Kings, Princess

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• In our heads we're all about 33 years old.

  Douglas Coupland

  Years

  "Douglas Coupland" by Johnny Dee, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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• It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Long, Age, Middle

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.102, BookBaby

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• To retire is the beginning of death.

  Pablo Casals

  Retirement, Work, Retiring

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• I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

  William Allen White

  Age, Form, Incompetent

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about

  Ingmar Bergman

  Wise, Thinking, Light

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”

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• Minds ripen at very different ages.

  Stevie Wonder

  Mind, Age, Different

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• I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fellowship, Too Much, Bread

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• He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Dying, Want, Pages

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• Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Children, Childhood, Age

  Wine from these Grapes (1934) "Childhood is the Kingdom where Nobody dies"

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• When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.

  Sara Gruen

  Age, Months, Firsts

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• The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.

  Albert Camus

  Fall, Artist, Night

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• I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

  Ray Bradbury

  Uncles, Crazy, Two

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.2, Hamilton Books

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• Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fear Of Death, Uncommon, Longevity

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.130, 谷月社

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• I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Discrimination, Notes

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• Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.

  Robert Browning

  Age, Youth, Grants

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.147, Wildside Press LLC

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• I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies

  Art Buchwald

  Want, Castro, Dies

  "Art Buchwald, 1925-2007" by Patricia Sullivan, www.washingtonpost.com. January 19, 2007.

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• I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Age, Looks, Corners

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

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• But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

  Fanny Burney

  Tired, Erring, Judgment

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.723, Delphi Classics

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• Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

  George Burns

  Retirement, Business, Retiring

  George Burns (1986). “Dr. Burns' Prescription for happiness”, G K Hall & Co

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• The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Beautiful, Strong, Grace

  Robinson Jeffers, “Promise Of Peace”

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• Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

  Cyril Connolly

  Revenge, Intelligence, Intellectual

  Cyril Connolly (1975). “The evening colonnade”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.

  Dave Barry

  Inspiring, Weight Loss, Years

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