Growing old

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? And be alone on earth, as I am now.

— Growing old

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem — and in my esteem age is not estimable.

— Growing old

One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're tired.

— Growing old

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

— Growing old

Old men’s prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

— Growing old

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

— Growing old

Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.

— Growing old

And the 24 elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped God who sits on the throne and said: “Amen! Praise Jah!” Also, a voice came from the throne and said: “Be praising our God, all you his slaves, who fear him, the small ones and the great.”

— Growing old

Work, play–at sixty our powers and tastes are what they were at seventeen. Old men in the bad old days used to renounce, retire, take to religion, spend their time reading, thinking–thinking!"

— Growing old

Every child, at birth, is the Universal Man. But, as it grows, we turn it into "a petty man." It should be the function of education to turn it again into the original "Universal Man."

— Growing old

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

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For age is opportunity no less The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

— Growing old

You never lose who you were, you just grow around you, like a tree.

— Growing old

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

— Growing old

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

— Growing old

The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end of lives that are at all prolonged, even in old lovers who have lived for one another, in old friends bound by the closest ties of mutual sympathy, who, after a certain year, cease to make the necessary journey or even to cross the street to see one another, cease to correspond, and know that they will communicate no more in this world.

— Growing old

The longer I live, the more urgent it seems to me to endure and transcribe the whole dictation of existence up to its end, for it might just be the case that only the very last sentence contains that small and possibly inconspicuous word through which everything we had struggled to learn and everything we had failed to understand will be transformed suddenly into magnificent sense.

— Growing old

Women of the 24th century consider a man in his early fifties like Picard has having just entered his best years. Active duty Starfleet males, (and females for that matter) have the double attractiveness of being in prime physical condition usually through their seventies and being more aware most humans of the rich variety of personal relationships.

— Growing old

Getting older was definitely preferable to an up close and personal meeting with the Grim Reaper.

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No man loves life like him that's growing old.

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It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

— Growing old

Age overtakes us all; Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

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There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, Soul clap its hands and sing.

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The land of the living was not far removed from the domain of the ancestors. There was coming and going between them, especially at festivals and also when an old man died, because an old man was very close to the ancestors. A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

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I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

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It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

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Grow old along with me! The last of life, for which the first was made

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