Aging Quotes - Page 14

• If youth knew; if age could.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Age, Youth

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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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• 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 grow old, ever learning many things.

  Solon

  Learning, Grows

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• Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.

  Billy Casper

  Age, Furniture, Problem

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• I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.

  Ansel Adams

  Eye, Heaven, Temperature

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• Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline

  James Truslow Adams

  Discipline, Age, Acquire

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• Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.

  Lauren Bacall

  Feelings, One Day, Alive

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• Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.

  Will Barnet

  Religious, Giving, Age

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• A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

  Bernard Berenson

  Self, May, Identification

  Bernard Berenson (2013). “Sketch For A Self Portrait”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

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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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• 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 don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

  Victor Borge

  Mind, Growing, Used

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• The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do.

  Robert Breault

  Too Late, Fewer, Seems

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• To retire is the beginning of death.

  Pablo Casals

  Retirement, Work, Retiring

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• Age is no guarantee of maturity.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Maturity

  Lawana Blackwell (2007). “Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The”, p.23, Bethany House

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• Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.

  Ethel Percy Andrus

  Self, Growth, Mankind

  Ethel Percy Andrus (1968). “The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus”

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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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• The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

  Helen Rowland

  Regret, Women, Opportunity

  A Guide to Men "Improvisations" (1922)

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