Aging Quotes And Sayings

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“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ”
– Anais Nin

“Love is like jumping out of an airplane with no parachute. But there’s no need to be frightened, because that plane is still on the ground.”

– jarod Kintz

“The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. ”
– Neal Stephenson

“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“It’s great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn’t need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? “You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things. ”
– Stephen Chbosky

“By the time you read this, you’ll be older than you remember. ”
– Chuck Palahniuk

“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age. ”
– Gloria Steinem

“There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.”
– Milan Kundera

“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade. ”
– Haruki Murakami

“At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. ”
– P.G. Wodehouse

“I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me. ”
– Patrick Rothfuss

“The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.”
– Mitch Albom

“Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. ”
– Edna St Vincent Millay

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”
– Robert Jordan

“Twenty can’t be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty’s eternal love affairs”
– Emily carr

“It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.”
– Emily carr

“Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. ”
– Lilian Carter

“Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.”
– Lillian Carter

“To retire is the beginning of death.”
– Pablo Casals

“I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.”
– Pablo Casals

“Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years. ”
– Pablo Casals

“I am old and ill, and I have sworn to die painting”
– Paul Cezanne

“Music is nothing separate from me. It is me. I can’t retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. You’d have to remove the music from me surgically – like you were taking out my appendix.”
– Ray Charles

“Life is very short… but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.”
– William Merritt Chase

“Aging isn’t that bad if you consider the alternatives.”
– Maurice Chevalier

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