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“At eight-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly with a simple change of position while he slept, ...”
“Past age fifty-five, I experienced the advancement of exquisite fabric choices, paint distinctions that were celestial in scope, yet so many other man-made objects, such as people, became drab, red...”
“Il arrive un ge o ils ne sont plus sduisants, ni en forme, comme on dit. Ils ne peuvent plus boire et ils pensent encore aux femmes; seulement ils sont obligs de les payer, d'accepter des quantits ...”
“My fiftieth year had come and gone,I sat, a solitary man,In a crowded London shop,An open book and empty cupOn the marble table-top.While on the shop and street I gazedMy body of a sudden blazed;An...”
“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.”
“We must stand up against old age and make up for its drawbacks by taking pains. We must fight it as we should an illness. We must look after our health, use moderate exercise, take just enough food...”
“We're always trotting out some story of a ninety-seven-year-old who runs marathons, as if such cases were not miracles of biological luck but reasonable expectations for all. Then, when our bodies ...”
“Old age teaches you in a very unkind way that things wont necessarily get better. Not in this life. In fact, you can pretty much count on things degenerating. Being content is not a lack of ambitio...”
“How can you become old in spirit? Only by carrying the past, isn't it? If you carry sixty years of burden with you, you're sixty years old. If you don't carry anything, you're like a newborn. The p...”
“All things left her, allBut one. Her highborn courtlinessAccompanied her to the end,Beyond the rapture and its eclipse,In a way like an angel's. Of ElviraThe first thing that I saw - such years ago...”
“Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.”
“I want that person you knew to return. But the truth is, this may be the best we achieve. Today, having her here and comfortable and not agitatedthat may be as good as we get. Are you okay with that?”
“Odder still how possessed I am with the feeling that now, aged 50, Im just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are. Therefore all this flitter flutter o...”
“There is a line in Verlaine I shall not recall again,There is a street close by forbidden to my feet,There's a mirror that's seen me for the very last time,There is a door that I have locked till t...”
“Grow old along with me--the best is yet to be,”
“Old age is having the name of a chiropractor in your wallet. It's cutting out coupons for the zeal of discounted small items and the practice of fine motor skills.”
“The only way that getting older can be a bad thing is if you are not fully living in the moment now.”
“Old age. I don't know when it really starts, and I'm not interested in finding out. Julia pretty much ignored the whole thing, and that may be the only real lesson there is for the end of our days....”
“A youth is susceptible to the influence of idealist notions. As a person ages, they notice a gap between their expectations and reality and they grow more pessimistic about the world and their abil...”
“Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.--Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver”
