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Aging Quotes
"Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?"
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"One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over."
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"George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life."
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"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."
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"A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice."
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"Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further."
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"Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities."
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"Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead."
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"When you start believing that you are too old to enjoy something, you lose so much joy in your life."
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"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good."
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"Lines and greyness are nature's way of telling you not to fuck with someone - the equivalent of yellow and black lines on a wasp, or the markings on the back of a black widow spider."
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"When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost."
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"I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the 'warehouse of good intentions': 'Can't do it now.' 'Then put it on hold.' This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death-because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses."
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"With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles."
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"If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on."
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"The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether."
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