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- Nov 07, 2020
Old Age Quotes
Comparing the pleasures of later life with those of youth.
Old age is described here as ready to take on long, slow tasks that youth would avoid out of impatience, and its pleasures are treated as real even though they differ sharply from youth's. This page gathers quotes comparing the two stages. Related reading continues on Age quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
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- Nov 07, 2020