Quotations about:
getting old
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What a wretched lot of old shriveled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind, — the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship, and now it is in a slight degree my experience.
George Eliot (1819-1880) English novelist [pseud. of Mary Ann Evans]
Letter to Sara Hennell (1852-05-27)
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Added on 31-Jan-24 | Last updated 31-Jan-24
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Topics: aging, camaraderie, cohort, friendship, getting old
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You know growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
Anthony Powell (1905-2000) English novelist
Temporary Kings, ch. 1 [Umfraville] (1973)
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Added on 7-Jul-23 | Last updated 7-Jul-23
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Topics: aging, getting old, innocence, old age, punishment
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PROFESSOR: What message do people generally send back when you first call on them?
OLD AGE: Not at home. Then I leave a card and go. Next year I call; get the same answer; leave another card. So for five or six, — sometimes ten years or more. At last, if they don’t let me in, I break in through the front door or the windows.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
“The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,”
Atlantic Monthly (1858-05)
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch. 7 (1858).
Added on 6-Jun-23 | Last updated 1-Feb-24
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Topics: aging, denial, getting old, old age
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Inside every older person there’s a younger person wondering what happened.
Ashleigh Brilliant (b. 1933) Anglo-American epigramist, aphorist, cartoonist
Pot-Shots, #1390
Added on 19-Mar-21 | Last updated 19-Mar-21
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Topics: age, aging, elderly, getting old, henoed, time flies
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I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say, “Of what?” I can only answer, “We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn’t be discovery.”
Florida Scott-Maxwell (1883-1979) American-British playwright, author, psychologist
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Added on 30-Nov-20 | Last updated 30-Nov-20
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Topics: age, discovery, elderly, getting old, old age
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She shrugged. “I don’t mind getting old.”
“I didn’t mind getting old when I was young, either,” I said. “It’s the being old now that’s getting to me.”
John Scalzi (b. 1969) American writer
Old Man’s War (2005)
Added on 30-Aug-16 | Last updated 30-Aug-16
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Topics: aging, elderly, getting old, henoed, old, youth
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Our hair
Grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Don Juan, Canto 12, st. 1 (1823)
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Added on 22-Sep-11 | Last updated 26-Mar-24
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Topics: adulthood, aging, getting old, henoed, middle age, old age
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