Aging Quotes - Page 34

• To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  People, Tables, Speak

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• ...there is no old age of the soul.

  Saul Bellow

  Soul, Age, Old Age

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• Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

  Plutarch

  Understanding, Increase, All Things

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• Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life Is, Delightful, Slopes

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• I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.

  Annie Dillard

  Age, Survivor, Fallen World

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.245, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

  Robert Southey

  Age, Youth, Forgotten

  "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them" l. 21 (1799)

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• I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65, I had Cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

  George Burns

  Believe, People, Worry

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• If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.

  Henry Rollins

  Gay, Games, Icons

  "Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, 1998.

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• The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

  George du Maurier

  Moon, Men, Years

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• An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.

  Robert James Waller

  Kindness, Moving, Process

  Robert James Waller (1990). “One good road is enough: essays”, Wiley-Blackwell

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• Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.

  Maureen Howard

  Acceptance, Needs, Helping

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• The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old.

  Glenn Frey

  Looks, Young, Great Things

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• Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles - and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech - look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

  Philip Roth

  Mother, Humorous, Florida

  "Portnoy's Complaint". Book by Philip Roth, 1969.

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• Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

  Jane Brody

  Mind, Watches, Midlife

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• Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

  Aeschylus

  Time, All Things

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.134, University of Chicago Press

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• Aging happy and well, instead of sad and sick, is at least under some personal control. We have considerable control over our weight, our exercise, our education, and our abuse of cigarettes and alcohol. With hard work and/or therapy, our relationships with our spouses and our coping styles can be changed for the better. A successful old age may lie not so much in our stars and genes as in ourselves.

  George Vaillant

  Stars, Lying, Hard Work

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• For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.

  Willow Bay

  Jobs, Children, Home

  "The Daily Balancing Act" by Willow Bay, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2007.

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• I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

  Eric Avery

  Rocks, Long, Guy

  "Jane's addiction ex=bassist Eric Avery recovers with Solo Lp, calls Billy Morgan 'inspiring'" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. December 26, 2007.

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• I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Children, Thinking, Priorities

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• For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.

  Bhartrhari

  Boys, Men, Wrinkles

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• I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

  Willa Cather

  Nature, Tree, Way

  O Pioneers! pt. 2, ch. 8 (1913)

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• I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

  Bill Ayers

  Learning, Intelligence, Intellectual

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• I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"

  Lewis Mumford

  Tombstone, Men, Personality

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

  Anne Frank

  Success, Personality, Done

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.137, GENERAL PRESS

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• If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Ifs

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