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“Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when almost over; youth is most charming at its close; the last drink delights the to...”
“I'm just at the age when time speeds up in an odd way. Do you know what I mean? The winters come closer together and you learn to accept that you're not special anymore.”
“Something I really enjoy about older couples is that they really have given up on getting everything right. They don't sweat the imperfections.”
“He couldn't be more than forty-five, but Murray Miles was stooped, old before his time. The mountains of Alberta had the ability to bend those who lived here.That, or it broke them.”
“...as he was combing his hair in front of the mirror...only then did he understand that a man knows when he is growing older because he begins to look like his father.”
“Aging is harder for beautiful people, and Anna was beautiful.”
“They were growing closer and closer every day, and Charlotte was finding something magical at Wildflower, something she never thought she would find againlove.”
“My features have blunted with the passage of time, my reflection only faintly resembles how I see myself. Gravity demands payback for the years my body has resisted it.”
“I paid bills and bought groceries and got my eyes checked while the days crumbled away like debris from a cliff face. Life a continuous backing away from the edge.”
“Hester, meanwhile, says we should live all of life back to front. We should be born old and age younger. Our baptism should be a ritual of our funeral. We should die as infants, content in our moth...”
“We have a solemn pact.' Kaye nodded to Mother and looked over at Em talking to some neighbors. 'If one of us is unconscious in the hospital, the others will make sure it's pulled.''The plug?' Ruth ...”
“She re-marked her lips with her lipstick. I saw sprays of silver in her coarse hair. I saw inscriptions of her years around her mouth, a solid crease between her brows from a lifetime of cynicism. ...”
“My countenance in my old-age does injustice to my heart. John Quincy Adams”
“As you ripen, youll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are relentless, and that getting older is not a stroll but an ambush.”
“To a man and woman, all of her elderly patients had been surprised to be old - which Avery privately regarded as a serious failure to pay attention.”
“I feel as if I am being left out, as though Im some straggler and people cant quite remember to stay back for me.”
“They say older folks need less sleep, so I must not be old yet.”
“the real essence of our lifetime lies in the time of our lives”
“People don't get gentler as they get older but rather, harder.”
“Just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes life from young men, ripeness from old. This ripeness is so delightful to me that, a...”
