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Decrepit Quotes
Honest words about growing older.
These decrepit quotes come from performers speaking candidly about feeling older next to younger peers, or embracing the word with dark humor. The honesty here is unusually direct. See Aging quotes for more on this theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.
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I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.
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Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.
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Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
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- Nov 07, 2020